I spoke with the M2F developers last night; it looks like if I kick in some development time, we’ll be able to get M2F working with phpBB3. So that’s where things stand right now.
Just curious here…
Why are you using mail2forum?
As far as I can tell, the only people who use it are you developers.
Why not just use the forum from the front, so to speak?
What are the benefits of M2F?
Thus spake “Shad”:
There’s a practical reason:
- Right now, there are 12651 posts in the forum. The top ten posters
account for 8056 of those posts. Seven of those ten use the mailing list,
for a total of 7080 posts from those people. While the number of users who
use the mailing list is small, those people account for 75% of the posts.
I have some personal reasons. If I have to use the forum directly, I’ll
mostly just ignore it. I find forums to be a terrible way to handle
interaction, because:
-
I’m forced to check the forum for updates rather than having the messages
come to me. It’s extremely inefficient to have to check a half-dozen forums
when I want to see if anything is new. -
My email tools are much more efficient for me than the ones any forum I’ve
ever seen provides. I can have threading, I can do searches with regular
expressions using grep, and grep doesn’t tell me “You cannot make another
search so soon after your last; please try again in a short while.” I can
use the text editor of my choice for composing messasges.
Finally, there’s a philosophical reason:
- I value the freedom of other people to choose how they will consume
information. Even if I didn’t prefer to use the email interface myself,
I would still argue that it should be provided for people who do prefer
it.
–
J.
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Thanks for spelling it out for me. Seems clear as day now!