On 8/28/2011 12:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Keith Roberts<keith at karsites.net> wrote: >>> The CentOS Forums are a very very good resource for many people and the >>> people spending time managing and posting there are doing a very good >>> job. I'm guessing you were unable to get value from the forums since >>> your expectations and forums deliverables dont match. That's fine, but >>> it does not imply that the entire forums are 'useless'. >> >> I'd say the forums have ALOT of usefull info, but the main >> Centos activity is centered on IMHO this list - cannot speak >> for the other centos lists, as I'm ONLY on this one for now. >> > > 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. > Someday, perhaps we'll end up back on an authenticated version of NNTP, with support for bbcode, images, and the front end reader of your choice... Maybe a merger of some sort between forums / email discussion threads and NNTP. There are things that the web forum does well, things that NNTP does well and things that mailing lists do well.