Maiden speech from an old man

[Scott Rossi]

Hi Hermann:

Jacque summed up the issue well, as has been done many times.  Her points
explain why many of us choose to participate more on this list, rather
than the forums -- none of the reasons have to do with exclusivity or
knowing veteran developers.

What's funny is, forum users have often asked for some way to get the mail
list included in a forum, while many of the mail list users (including
myself) have asked repeatedly to have the forum content accessible via
email.  It goes both ways.

Jacque (and Richard) have explained how this is "sort of" possible.  But
the reality is, there's less incentive to respond to a forum post when
it's many hours (or a day) old.

The mail list isn't a "club" -- it's a medium of convenience  :-)

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 7/25/14 10:51 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

>On 7/25/2014, 11:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> To download for offline reading see Jacque's helpful tip on setting up
>> email subscription for the entire forum:
>> <http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2014-June/202871.html>
>
>It's a stopgap solution that I use daily, but even so it doesn't provide
>the same easy interaction that this list does. I don't have much time,
>and even with the digest I still need to load the forums in a browser
>and do all the clicking and page-loading and all the rest of it before I
>can post. So I don't visit very often, and I only scan the digest
>quickly to see if there is anything I feel is compelling enough to take
>time to mess with a web browser.
>
>Since the digest arrives only once a day, much of the content is old by
>the time I see it. I have often clicked through to the forum with a
>reply in mind, only to find that since the digest was compiled, it has
>already been answered. Email is immediate and if I have a response, I
>can send it in a few seconds and go back to my work. If someone else has
>already replied, I already know that. There is no loading, no clicking,
>no typing into a tiny text area (very difficult on a mobile device,) and
>no waiting for the reply to be accepted to see whether I need to send it
>twice because someone else has already answered while I was typing.
>
>Reading conversations via a web browser is slow and tedious, which is
>fine for those who have time to leisurely browse content. I would be
>more apt to use the forum if posts would arrive one at a time,
>immediately, and if I could reply via email so I didn't have to deal
>with a web browser (in other words, if I could use it the way I use this
>list.) As it is, I participate infrequently, and I suspect the
>commercial developers here do the same because time is so limited.
>
>-- 
>Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>