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I second Soren's position
 - anything which is not streaming into my workflow and does not allow a two clicks response (Reply/Send) is doomed to stay out of focus and turn into ignored noise rather than a productivity tool.


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-----Original Message-----
From: openstack-bounces+diboyn=cisco.com at lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+diboyn=cisco.com at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Soren Hansen
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 4:10 PM
To: Jordan Rinke
Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Creating a forum

It's certainly a matter of personal preference, but I absolutely hate forums.

I hate that I cannot interact with them using clients that I choose.
No, the fact that I can choose between different web browsers doesn't count. E-mail and usenet, for instance, are excellent means for communication. I hate that I have to poll forums to see if anything new is happening. E-mail notifications from forums frustrate me even more, because I can't just reply to the e-mail to respond to the thread.

Give me a forum that has an NNTP interface, and we can talk. :)

I totally understand that I'm reasonably alone in this (the endless amount of forums with even more endless amounts of users all over the Internet clearly demonstrates that I'm at least a minority), so don't let me hold you guys back if you all love forums. I just know from experience that try as I might, I'm not likely to maintain any sort of motivation to participate in forums for any useful amount of time.

It may be a cultural thing, so it may work out completely differently for OpenStack, but I think the number of Ubuntu core developers who frequent the Ubuntu forums can be counted on one hand. Probably even with fingers to spare.

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Soren Hansen        | http://linux2go.dk/ Ubuntu Developer    | http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer | http://www.openstack.org/

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