Honestly - is it that difficult to sign up for a mailing list, and follow an email thread? I agree that it wouldn't hurt to have a dedicated forum as well, but it's not something I'm too concerned with. Email is incredibly convenient and works just fine for me. Jeffrey On Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > @Tab > > "Because we always have" is not good enough. Sorry, I'm wading in here > with my newbie boots, but do you realise how incredibly off-putting > the technology and systems the W3C use for communication are to people > wanting to get involved? > > Even for people as passionate and committed as me, it's an incredible > battle to get involved. I don't think it's a good argument to keep the > status quo that "it works for now". Horses worked fine too, but we > invented the car because it was better. The rest of the web are > driving cars and the W3C is sitting in it's horse-drawn-carriage > causing irritation with the general population who are sharing the > same roads and wondering what's going on. > > The 'friendly on phone' thing is a false argument. Get a forum theme > that's light-weight. Done. I also don't think that one specific and > rare use case is much of an argument to hold back what would be a > massive improvement for the majority of use cases. > >Received on Thursday, 5 January 2012 18:40:50 UTC
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