[gobolinux-users] Gobolinux Forum?

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Fri, 25 May 2007 11:56:50 +0200, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:

> On 5/25/07, molfar <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/25/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
>> > http://www.pakistanopensource.org/goboforum/
>> > As you can see, it wasn't very well-used, and it doesn't seem to be
>> > linked from the website any more. I think the reasons that there isn't
>> > a forum have been gone over pretty thoroughly in the past every time
>> > the subject came up; chiefly, because nobody would read it, and
>> > because fragmentation is bad.
>> What fragmentation you are speakin of? If the forum is integrated into
>> main site structure why there would be any fragmentation?
>> And that's
>> also one of primary reasons why there were so little users on that
>> forum, as well as on google groups relevant list - how would anyone
>> know that there is such a thing? I wouldn't personally.
> By my recollection, it used to be linked. Nobody used it, and I think
> it went down entirely for a while, so the link was removed. Somebody
> can jump in and correct me on that if they like.

The reason the forum link was taken of the site was mainly because of
the hosting. I was the dev responsible of the forum. Not the hosting or
administration, just replying/relaying and keeping the forum from spam.
Then the hosting servers were switched, but the new server came with an
old copy of the forum, leaving out half a year worth of posts. There was
a discussion about restoring the posts, which was on another server, but
the forum administrator wanted to switch to another forum software and
didn't want to restore the forum to the old platform. So the forum was
left until the switch, however the administrator never found the time to
switch (or to restore the copy), so eventually the forum was just
abandomed and the link as removed from our site.

>> Second, the argument to not have the forum because nobody reads it is
>> lame (no offence please). You can also say the same to having
>> Gobo-distro entirely. There is very small userbase - so why bother?.
>> Certainly, this is not an option.
> I should be clear that by "nobody" I mean "none of the developers".
> See the previous discussions for a taste of the feelings around it. If
> those feelings have changed, you're in with a better shot.
>
The reason, imo, is that we don't have a forum is that noone has taken
the time or effort to take the discussion and(or) set one up. At the
same time there has to be a responsible administrator and none of the
current devs (afaik) are interested in that, as we have other things to
worry about.

>> > If it's
>> > infrequently-visited people will have unrealistic expectations for
>> > responses, and that doesn't reflect well.
>> Yet it is even worse without one.
> Somehow, I think unanswered messages and requests are a little worse
> than people being forced to endure the everlasting travesty that is a
> mailing list.

Agreed! A dead forum, with no or very few replies are worse than no forum
imo.

-- 
/Jonas

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