2008/2/21 Tom Wickline twickline@gmail.com:
[if] the forums at http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php were not popular enough to make this cut, may I ask how many users = popular?
Well, let's see: Ubuntuforums: Threads: 685,027, Posts: 4,364,352, Members: 509,031 Linuxforums: Threads: 111,640, Posts: 550,654, Members: 149,826 Linuxforen.de: Themen: 238.148, Beiträge: 1.602.009, Benutzer: 70.611 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine: Threads: 22,816; no idea how many posts or members. wine-forum.org: Threads: 174, Posts: 529, Members: 751
I think you have to grow by about two orders of magnitude to complete. And even then, you'd be fragmenting the user space. I rather doubt the average Ubuntu user, comfortable in his or her Ubuntu forum, will venture afield when there's a wine area right there in the ubuntu forum site. Likewise, users comfortable with the wine-users mailing list are unlikely to switch. etc. By adding a new forum, you're decreasing the quality of support in the existing ones. - Dan