[Xitami] Community

[Thomas]

This isn't specifically aimed at your post Johannes, but I feel I must 
correct a common misconception: Adding an IRC channel, webforum or 
whatever will NOT remove the mailinglist. It will still be here, it will 
still be used. The other tools are there to improve on the Xitami 
community, not degrade it.

The more methods we have available for communication, the better. A lot 
of people hate mailinglists, a lot of people can't stand forums and 
quite a lot believe IRC to be the work of the devil. It is impossible to 
satisfy everybody, so why not enable Xitami users to use whatever form 
they personally feel best?

Of course it would be best if the people behind Xitami just took care of 
all this and made the best information hub ever, but seeing as that 
probably wont happen, I believe it is up to us users to take the helm 
and move the community forward.

Here's my opinion:

IRC chat > Great!
Webforum > Great!
Mailinglist > Great!

Why this reluctance to try something new? If it fails, we can always 
fall back to the current system. It's not the end of the world.  :o)

Sincerely,
Thomas


Johannes Prost wrote:

>Hello Members,
>
>here my opinion to this discussion
>
>IRC chat > absolute not
>webforum > ok, accepted
>mailinglist > preferred
>
>I had a look at the archives and the only thing which is missing for convenience sake is, to make 
>it easier to search. 
>I'm with this list now for a bit over a year, and i can't get rid  of the assumption that, as Ted 
>pointed out, there are a lot people subscribed and lurking this list, but they are not "active" 
>members. Why should the behavior change with a IRC or webforum ? Would those people more willing to 
>help and give answers because we would have now a forum or IRC ?
>
>I'm not familiar with php, perl, cgi, to be able to answer the questions as I would like to, but 
>the ones I can, I try to. And with a mailinglist I can stay in the same way tuned as with a 
>webforum. I can only read the mail (answer) as soon as it is sent, not earlier ! 
>Those 30/ 60 seconds difference, hey come on, that's even nonsense to argue about.
>And in regards to IRC; what's about timezones ???? Is everyone really sitting 24/7 in front of the 
>computer to make sure to catch every message which arrives ? What is then about the not so active 
>members i mentioned earlier ? What is the one sitting 24/7 waiting for ??
>
>I'm in no way upset or disappointed, but those are only some objective views/thoughts I want to 
>through into this discussion. The "newest and fanciest" stuff is not every time the best what it 
>looks in the first place.
>
>Johannes
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