Re: [Banshee-List] Notice: Forums permanently closed

["Brian Kerrick Nickel" <brian nickel gmail com>]

I agree that forums are a better resource for getting input from
Windows users. The point where I feel it falls apart is that there are
two separate communication systems, the forum and the email list. When
you have both you have to deal with twice the maintinence, and the
lack of information sharing makes it so you need to repeat yourself a
lot.

With TagLib#, I ended up shutting down the email list and switching
exclusively to a forum with a lot of success, but I could only do that
because the email list wasn't active. The only solution that could
really work well for both mediums would be a hybrid situation where
the email list and forum are the same thing, like Google Groups.

- Brian

On 29/01/2008, Jon Cosby <jon jcosby com> wrote:
> Gabriel Burt wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > The forums were an interesting experiment, but they were overrun with
> > spam accounts and questions didn't get answered very quickly (or at
> > all).  This is partially because they really were redundant with our
> > existing systems for help - mailing list, wiki/faq, bugzilla, irc and
> > largely because our attention is already split in enough directions.
> >
> > We have decided to close them (no new accounts, no posting/logging in,
> > no official links from the project homepage) but the content will stay
> > up in case it's of use to somebody searching the web.
> >
>
> That's a shame. With Banshee being ported to Windows, I don't know that
> most Windows users are familiar with mailing lists, let alone filing bug
> reports. Maybe Banshee users would be different, but have you thought
> about finding a volunteer to moderate the forum?
>
>
> Jon Cosby
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