Unofficial GnuCash Forum

[Egbert van der Wal]

Just to give my opinion on this: I have a preference for a forum to a 
mailing list. I can work with a mailing list, but I know many 
unexperienced computer users that run away at the thought of a mailing 
list. If that is the only option for them to get support they will 
probably end up abandoning GnuCash.

However, support of the developers, or at least an active community is 
very important to the success of such a forum so I'm unsure on how 
effective this would be.

While Hyper Kitty and Nabble are interesting efforts, they do not match 
the usability of a forum like PHPBB by a long shot. Layout is 
questionable, search functionality is limited and everything in the 
layout reminds of the underlying mailing list. Such as the grouping by 
date. Why do I have to click a year and a month to see the threads, for 
example? I would just like to see the most recent discussions, 
regardless of when they took place.

Forum software is also always capable of sending notifications when 
activity occurs on a thread on which you are involved, and I have seen 
forum software in which you can reply to the notification in order to 
post a reply, mimicking mailing list software. Much like Hyper Kitty in 
reverse.

I would be interested to see how active and effective such a forum 
would, at least. Thanks for the effort, Mark!

Regards,

Egbert


Op 19-01-15 om 06:05 schreef life0riley:
> Tommy Trussell wrote
>> ...
>> Mark Ruzicka registered a domain and has gone to some trouble to set up a
>> new forum for gnucash discussions. I think it's wonderful he offered his
>> time and server space to help the community!
>>
>> Maybe Mark Ruzicka and others can help the GnuCash.org maintainers by
>> testing ways to convert the past and future postings of the email list
>> into
>> a more usable and searchable form. Or maybe accelerate the conversion of
>> the existing list to a forum by testing a beta version of the GNU mailman
>> software so it can be installed on GnuCash.org sooner. (Though I don't
>> know
>> if a beta is available yet.)
>> ...
>
> I have been following this discussion with great interest also.  I am a new
> GnuCash user transitioning from Quicken and have primarily used nabble to
> find the solutions I needed.  I find the search in nabble adequate for that.
>
> I appreciate the work Mark Ruzicka did.  It is a shame it has been taken
> down already.  I was planning to track its development.
>
>
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