On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Always Learning <centos at u61.u22.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 11:37 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> The problem with forums is that if you have more than a couple of >> interests you kill the whole day bouncing around in a web browser >> logging into them and figuring out their user interface differences. >> Could the rss feed be made a little more obvious? It might work to >> plug it into google reader or other feed consolidator. > > Forums = too slow > = too much hard work for little gain > Emails = instant > = quick > = easy I agree in principle, but remember that you are really interacting with your own tools, so if they are slow or inconvenient you can use a different tool. There are some email readers (Apple's, at least) that handle rss feeds pretty much the same as email. Google reader or other feed aggregators make it easy to read a bunch from different sources all in one place with whatever groupings you like - and always maintain the same 'unread' view across different client browsers or phone apps. So, if the forums provide a usable rss feed, reading them shouldn't be that bad, even though you have to follow the links to read longer messages and reply. Seems to work fine for the QA forum, anyway. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com