+1 for removing the forum ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pete Muir" <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: jdf-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 11:20:06 AM > Subject: [jdf-dev] User forums: should we dump them? > > One idea I was throwing around last week was whether we should get > rid of user forums totally. Here's why: > > 1) No one is using the user forum, everyone is using the disqus > comments > 2) If you think about what goes into a user forum, it's: > * questions > * bug reports > * announcements > * misc other stuff > > If we dig into (2), I think it's fair to say that questions would be > better addressed by a stackoverflow Q&A approach, bug reports should > go in the bug tracker anyway, announcements should go in the news, > or on twitter or blogs, and that I can't come up with any good > examples of what other stuff there is (and in all honesty, twitter > probably can cope with the rest of it). > > It's also worth nothing that we can embed a Q&A system nicely into > pages (e.g. people can ask questions on a specific page) probably, > which I think will be a popular way to interact, especially if we > integrate it well with comments. > > This isn't something we can do right now (we need to look at good > ways to do it) but I wanted to throw the idea out, and see if any > ardent forum fans come out of the woodwork... > > Pete > _______________________________________________ > jdf-dev mailing list > jdf-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jdf-dev > _______________________________________________ jdf-dev mailing list jdf-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jdf-dev