Perhaps the new forum could function in a similar way to the mailing list? If you could receive responses via email and respond via email, then it would be the best of both worlds. I know most ticketing systems these days provide this functionality, the same is possible on a forum. ________________________________ From: FreeSWITCH-users <freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org> on behalf of Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@freeswitch.open.source.it> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2023 16:40 To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Retiring the FreeSWITCH Mailing list On Thursday 02 February 2023 at 14:51:19, Brandon Armstead wrote:
+1 in agreement with Alex.
I don't know how many +1s you've had so far, but this is another one. I think Alex has expressed extremely well why forums are not as effective as lists. I would also simply add that I am on quite a number of mailing lists, and it's very convenient to deal with them all in one email client. If each one were replaced by a forum, I would need multiple logged-in windows in a browser, and have to actively switch back and forth between them to see if there were new messages. This is the biggest thing for me which makes forums highly unproductive. Antony.
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:28 AM Alex Balashov wrote:
I do understand that maintaining a mailing list, and all the issues that come with it, is a thankless chore. I run several myself and can relate to the frustration.
However, from my perspective, it is by far the most effective way to engage the broadest swath of users, for reasons already outlined by others. Only a small, hardcore group of forum enthusiasts who particularly like that medium will participate in forums; average people won't bother to keep up with the forum because it requires work.
The net effect is that people only come to ask a specific question, the number of experts usefully answering questions is reduced, and that users don't stay broadly abreast of trends and project info which would otherwise smile out in some way from their inbox.
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