[kepler-dev] Forum for Kepler?

[Christopher Brooks]

Agreed, I won't ever check a forum.  I respond to email.

Also, I agree that the kepler-dev and kepler-user archives need
to be searchable.  Matt was looking into this, but getting the
website up was definitely of much higher priority (Thanks, Matt!).
One trick is to create a google group and forward email to the group
so that it is searched.  One problem is that people tend to post
to the Google group instead of the original list.

Also, I firmly believe that most support questions should be answered
with a URL that describes the answer.  I don't always do this, but
I try.

_Christopher

Peter Reutemann wrote:
>> Just a suggestion:
>> Kepler is fun and exciting to use. With the number of users growing
>> manifold, I think having a forum would make it much easier to navigate
>> through common problems that people face or have encountered.
>> Browsing and searching becomes much simpler in a forum such
>> as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum
>> The Kepler site does have a forum. How about increasing activity there and
>> diverting users to use that actively?
> 
> Personally, I prefer mailing lists. Especially, when the archives can
> be searched (which I sorely miss from Kepler).
> 
> Here are the archives (you can easily navigate there if you just
> follow the link to the Kepler mailing list info page that is attached
> to each post):
>   http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-dev/
> 
> The problem with a lot of forums is, that the nice thread structure
> from mailing lists gets lost and makes navigating quite hard.
> E.g., if somebody replies to a post, which is not the last one, this
> will branch off the conversation (using e.g. Thunderbird's
> thread-based view). In forums you quite often only see one long thread
> without any structure, even though people reply to other posts than
> the last one.
> 
> But that's my 2c...
> 
> Cheers, Peter

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