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[Mike <dracoling AT gmail.com>]

Agreed.

On Feb 6, 2011 8:31 PM, "Hanselka, Alex" <alex AT hanselka.name> wrote:
> Or we could just get rid of the forums. I'd like that.
>
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Caleb Langeslag <takyoji AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I completely forgot there even was a forum in the Joomla installation. If
>> we rid of the Joomla installation, I can just migrate everything (posts,
>> topics, users) to a phpBB3 installation, and write something to bridge
>> authentication from the Wikka Wakka installation to phpBB3 (so that people
>> wouldn't need an account for the forum, and another account for the wiki).
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Brian Koontz <brian AT pongonova.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 12:43:56PM -0800, Amrit Panesar wrote:
>>> > Well honestly, the joomla forum and cms setup is pretty broken right
>>> > now. I believe that would be best to explore other solutions and perhaps
>>> > get something a bit more user friendly, and perhaps get more people
>>> > using OpenNIC. (Information availability = User availability)
>>>
>>> User availability != query response rate. There are those who prefer
>>> forums over mailing lists, and vice versa. However, I would venture
>>> to say that the bulk of real OpenNIC business is done via e-mail.
>>> This implies that support is most likely to come to those who post
>>> their queries via e-mail rather than by forum.
>>>
>>> I'm all for choice, convenience, etc. But I think in this case, too
>>> many "official" channels of communications can be detrimental to the
>>> organization. I can show you many examples of posts on the forums
>>> where posters vent their frustrations at not getting answers to their
>>> queries...I can think of few, if any, examples of same on the mailing
>>> list.
>>>
>>> --Brian
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