> A well designed & managed Forum places information and resources all
neatly connected in one place.

> A Forum captures & organizes text, images, links, etc.

This sounds to me like the sort of documentation that would be better
organized in a wiki than a forum, thus separating the chatter and
threadedness from info that's meant to be sticky yet still collaboratively
developed.

Is there already a Devuan wiki somewhere? What do forum users think of
wikis?

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On Dec 4, 2014 7:26 PM, "handygeek@???" <
handygeek@???> wrote:
>
> Facebook is a real bad idea - many of us refuse to even open
> an account on that black hole of exhibitionism and voyeurism -
> not to mention it is resource intensive.
>
> A well designed & managed Forum places information and
> resources all neatly connected in one place.
>
> Following a thread on email can get tiresome - especially
> when users don't change the Subject to properly reflect text
> content and when there's a flurry of noise-posts.
>
> A Forum captures & organizes text, images, links, etc.
>
> IMHO ...
>
> > Glad someone brought up the idea of forums.
> >
> > Being an avid email user, I get forum updates by email, so I
> > experience no substantial difference between forums and mailing
> > lists, save for protocol compatibility and bandwidth utilization.
> > Of course, mail is also pretty easy to deal with in a simple text
> > console, and forums not always so.
> >
> > What are the useful distinctions as experienced by those who prefer
> > forums? Is it about the manner in which the topics are
> > threaded/tagged/categorized, the differences in filtering/managing
> > noise, a specific preference for HTTP rather than SMTP... or?
> >
> > Just curious. :)
> >
> > -8
>
>
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