* * * * ** some tumbleweeds drift through
So, is everything working fine, or did a new release break everyone's systems so badly they can't email any more? ;-)
On 9 Mar 2024, at 16:27, Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
some tumbleweeds drift through
The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ these days.
Barry
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 09:50 +0000, Barry wrote:
The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ these days.
I flatly refuse to use webforums. They're extremely inconvenient.
Email comes to me, I can go through it in my spare time as I see fit.
Websites waste my time in a massive way.
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 09:50 +0000, Barry wrote:
The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/%C2%A0these days.
Is there proof of this that we could see?
The web forum is OK. I find it tough to read. There's too much going on. Sometimes I just want to see what people are discussing, but it's harder to read the topic titles and I don't know why.
On Mon, 2024-03-11 at 10:32 -0400, Ranbir wrote:
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 09:50 +0000, Barry wrote:
The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/%C2%A0these days.
Is there proof of this that we could see?
If you mean have I gathered statistics, then the answer is no. For one thing, the Discourse forum is for all of Gnome, not just Evolution (in fact I sometimes get posts on other topics I've no interest in). You register interest in topics (it doesn't really have an exact equivalent of threads) and then try to figure out the arcane configuration system so as to limit traffic to those you're interested in. This is a PITA and doesn't work well. However I've managed to do it and do see everything related to Evolution on Discourse, plus of course the new mailing list, and can confirm that in the last 5 days the Evo list has received to date 23 messages and the Discourse "list" none.
The web forum is OK. I find it tough to read. There's too much going on. Sometimes I just want to see what people are discussing, but it's harder to read the topic titles and I don't know why.
Poor design. That's it. I can't be bothered analysing what exactly is wrong, but that's my take on it.
poc
On 11 Mar 2024, at 14:32, Ranbir m3freak@thesandhufamily.ca wrote:
The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ these days.
Is there proof of this that we could see?
Yes. Look at this page and you can see the number/week in each category. For example the user help "Ask Fedora" topic is 88/week and "Project discussion" is 27/week.
This has been the level of messages for over a year at this point.
There are comments in this thread on the lines of "forums do X badly", however the discussion forum software as used by Fedora, Gnome, Python etc is better designed then the claimed faults I think.
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