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by Frederic Da Vitoria :: Rate this Message:

2009/6/29 Nikolai Prokoschenko <nikolai@...>

Dear MusicBrainz users,

as you know, there is an ongoing effort to reorganize and simplify user
support at MusicBrainz. One of the usual suspects are mailing lists as
opposed to forums -- many users are confused as to where
they should ask for help. It has been noted that only one of the mailing
lists has any relevance for the users (this one), all the others are
relevant either for developers or customers.

A proposal has been made about moving all user-relevant discussion to
the forums at http://forums.musicbrainz.org. However, nobody wished to
close this mailing list without hearing what its inhabitants think of
this idea first, so here it comes:

1. What do you think in general of putting user support at one place at
forums and shutting down musicbrainz-users mailing list?

2. Do you see any technical or usability reasons against using the
forums?

Thank you for your replies.

Nikolai.

I am not sure: with the ML, I receive a copy of every post and answers to posts. I don't think this can be achieved with the forum. I don't see why it can't but I couldn't find out how to have it. I feel this is important because often it is not the first mail which is interesting, but a distant answer, after several turns in the conversation. With the forum I receive automatically only the first post of each thread. Which means that I must either subscribe manually to each thread (definitely not user-friendly) or accept to let answers pass without knowing about those answers.

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Frederic Da Vitoria
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