Jer wrote:
Say, Just chatting on IRC today, and ShadowHawk pointed out that a host of other sites (Franks corner, etc) have sprung up almost entirely because there are no user based forums on winehq.org.
This is, in part, due to the fact that the gateway between the newsgroup and wine-users is busted. And it is that way, because the gateway we were using is a dead project, and Jer hasn't been able to wrestle it back into working (and doesn't really want to).
Further, I think it may be time to recognize that cool looking forums are what users expect; that mailing lists and newsgroups are really becoming the 'old' way of doing things.
Nah. Forums blow donkey dong because they aren't easily google-searchable. I think we can get what users want by asking http://www.gmane.org/ to handle the gateway; then users that want a web interface can trivially use a gateway like http://groups.google.com.
And that'd be *even less* work for Jer than setting up and maintaining Phorum. - Dan
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Dan Kegel