12 Sep
2017
12 Sep
'17
6:37 a.m.
On 12/09/2017 3:52 PM, Ruben ON3RVH wrote:
Hey Tony,
Just a question, but why would a web forum be unusable to you? The login part is no
problem as far as I can see, there are many password toolkits that'll remember your
password and login for all websites (1password, keepass, .. )
But I would like to know why a forum is unusable. There are many on the net, and if set
up properly and orderly, you can search through them, post comments/questions in the right
place etc
The problems start before then. I have a degree of what's known as
executive dysfunction. One of the manifestations is I'll eventually
forget to log into the forum, and lose track of it altogether, as has
happened to 95% or more of the forums I've ever joined. Once I'm on, I
find navigation awkward, slow and clumsy. Threading is of little
benefit, I do my own threading in my head (highly associative memory),
which means reading them is a tiresome process of reading all messages
through that slow and clumsy interface. I can read about 2-5 times as
many emails in the same time as I can web forum posts in the same time.
But the old fashioned bulletin board interfaces (especially QWK offline
readers) allows ten times that again. Little wonder I run an old school
BBS or two (accessible over the Internet). :)
But it would mean more overhead for the maintainer as there's an application to
support and it is likely to get a lot of attention from spammers who try to use the forum
for their spam.
And for me, a much poorer experience.
Facebook is all good and well (for those that use it), but not suitable to replace a
mailinglist like this one imho.
I think the mailing list will work better than
Facebook for this group,
and that's before considering there's a lot who don't want to go near
Facebook (understandable). I use it, but don't expect everyone to.
I personally don't do threads in my mailbox. That's just not useable to me. I
like my mails sorted on receive date/hour rather than subject. I did try it some years
ago, but I kept missing mails and not reading them, so I went back to my normal layout :)
I'm the same, though some systems have screwy dates, so I sometimes sort
them by status (unread first). :)
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73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com