RE: Forums

[Bjoern Hoehrmann:]
> 
> * JonRimmer wrote:
> >Wow, this seems very impressive. If you sign-up, they even have the
> >ability to post via a web interface (attempting to use that to post this
> reply).
> 
> When I look at and attempt to use that "Nabble" interface, I am shocked
> and horrified and can't really imagine anyone would use this to partici-
> pate in www-style discussions for a prolonged period of time. As far as I
> can tell, mail and netnews clients have always been much better than this.
> The interaction required there to navigate through mails plus the load
> times alone mean that I would have to spend over ten times as much time
> reading mails as I do currently, and I am already writing my own client
> because I find the client I currently use the most inefficient.

I don't get it either. I don't know any designers who doesn't use email
all the time. But then some folks don't get why I still prefer vim or emacs
to 'modern IDEs' either. Not everyone likes their productivity in the same places.

Received on Sunday, 8 January 2012 04:57:01 UTC