So, if we look at January, the last month without the forum: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-January/thread.html we had 226 posts. If we look at March, the first full month with the forum: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-March/thread.html we had 2136 posts. Even if you say that 1,000 of those posts were meta posts with complaints from us Mailman lovers, that's still at least a 5 fold increase in traffic. I found that compelling, so I thought I would share. I've long had a strong bias for mailing lists, but I think this is an important lesson for me to accept. If we want to engage and embrace all visitors to Wine - not just the ones that think as I do - we need to make sure the forums are strong and work well. Sigh. First Wikis, now forums. What's next? Am I going to have to twitter and text message with my thumbs? </grumpy old man> <grin> Cheers, Jeremy
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:37:30 -0500 Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> wrote:> So, if we look at January, the last month without the forum: > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-January/thread.html > we had 226 posts. > > If we look at March, the first full month with the forum: > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-March/thread.html > we had 2136 posts. > > Even if you say that 1,000 of those posts were meta posts with complaints from > us Mailman lovers, that's still at least a 5 fold increase in traffic. > > I found that compelling, so I thought I would share. > > I've long had a strong bias for mailing lists, but I think this > is an important lesson for me to accept. If we want to engage and > embrace all visitors to Wine - not just the ones that think as I do - > we need to make sure the forums are strong and work well. > > Sigh. First Wikis, now forums. What's next? Am I going to have to twitter > and text message with my thumbs? </grumpy old man> > <grin> > > Cheers, > > Jeremyyeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080403/121ad541/attachment.pgp
[/quote] yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad. [quote] I don't think that has only to do with the age (even if I am a few weeks short of 30 [Laughing] ) I receive about 40 mails a day, my e-mail which I didn't have time to tidy for a couple of weeks has now 767 mails (unwanted already deleted). Do you even think I will bother about a mailer? you can contact me on MSN messenger, IRC or forum but I will keep my e-mail out of it (furthermore, I find it easier to keep track of questions online).
> > > > > On Thursday 03 April 2008 01:24:18 am Dotan Cohen wrote: > Quote: > On 03/04/2008, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote: > Quote: > On 4/3/08, Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> wrote: > Quote: > yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad. > > They also walk all over my lawn! > > I vote that a new user must prove that he knows who cowboyneal is > before he can post. > > The only two voting options will be "Yes" and "CowboyNeal". There is only one > correct answer. > > > > I remember 2 years ago on April 1 that Cowboy Neal did the OMG Pink Ponys page, wonder if that is in google cash somewhere, Would love to see it again. > Frank
On 04/04/2008, Frank <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I remember 2 years ago on April 1 that Cowboy Neal did the OMG Pink Ponys page, > wonder if that is in google cash somewhere, Would love to see it again.http://www.metlin.org/content/blog/omgponies.jpg Kubuntu did it to the beta version of their upcoming OS this year: http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/foolsSS-wee.png Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?