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by Paul C. Bryan
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There's this really neat service called Google Groups, that lets you
have a web-based forum AND allows users to read/submit to the group
through email (a.k.a. a mailing list). Can we consider that?
I'll say that if you switch to forums-only with no email support, I
won't visit often (if at all). If you count the number of individual
forums I'd have to visit in order to keep-up with message traffic --
each with different software, credentials, user interface, ways of being
notified of changes -- it would be astonishing.
FWIW:
My vote for shutting down the mailing list if email reading/submission
is supported: +1.
My vote if no email support: -1.
Paul
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 21:43 +0200, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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have a web-based forum AND allows users to read/submit to the group
through email (a.k.a. a mailing list). Can we consider that?
I'll say that if you switch to forums-only with no email support, I
won't visit often (if at all). If you count the number of individual
forums I'd have to visit in order to keep-up with message traffic --
each with different software, credentials, user interface, ways of being
notified of changes -- it would be astonishing.
FWIW:
My vote for shutting down the mailing list if email reading/submission
is supported: +1.
My vote if no email support: -1.
Paul
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 21:43 +0200, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MusicBrainz-users mailing list
> MusicBrainz-users@...
> http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-users
_______________________________________________
MusicBrainz-users mailing list
MusicBrainz-users@...
http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-users
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