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by Stephen Nesbitt
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On Monday 29 June 2009 01:51:01 pm Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> 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.It really depends on the forum software.
The primary advantages to the mailing list are 1) it is delivered to me - I
don't have to initiate the review or check a web site to determine if a reply
has been posted 2) it is easy to quickly scan and review messages 3) I can
easily archive posts of interest
If the forum provides a decent RSS capability then the forum will work ok.
Otherwise it's a pain and keeping up to date becomes more difficult.
-steve
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> 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.
The primary advantages to the mailing list are 1) it is delivered to me - I
don't have to initiate the review or check a web site to determine if a reply
has been posted 2) it is easy to quickly scan and review messages 3) I can
easily archive posts of interest
If the forum provides a decent RSS capability then the forum will work ok.
Otherwise it's a pain and keeping up to date becomes more difficult.
-steve
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MusicBrainz-users mailing list
MusicBrainz-users@...
http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-users
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