Re: No forums?

Larry E. Ullman wrote:

One of the fallacies in your argument is that the lack of an official forum on php.net implies "such distaste for message boards". I don't have a big screen TV but I have anything but distaste for them!

Well, let me give you a different example. I don't have a TV at all, even though I could buy one. Knowing this, would you assume that I don't like watching it? The same thing with forum. It's a usual feature, just like website is. Would you be surprised if PHP had no website? Would you ask why it doesn't?

Also, you should realize that your question could be rephrased as "Why hasn't someone else done all this extra work (creating and managing a forum) because I would prefer it?"

Are you saying that I'm the only PHP user that might like discussing things on a forum? Again, forums are very common. Some people like them, other people like mailing lists. In case of PHP, I find the lack of forum weird, because it's a web development language. Besides, you're implying that maintaining forum is "extra work", while maintaining mailing lists isn't. Extra work for extra users you can live without, eh?

In any case, if you are sincerely interested in either a support Web forum or a legitimate answer to your question, you may have better luck if your inquiry were more "I would appreciate it if..." or "has an official forum been considered?" and less "this system that you've been using for years sucks and this is why I'm right".

I do not see anything horrible in my message. It's not like I'm _demanding_ something, or suggesting to tear down mailing lists. Neither did I suggest that mailing lists suck. In case of php.internals they totally make sense. But I _do_ think that forum efficient in case of high-volume messaging. -- Best regards, Roman S.I. http://sf.net/projects/naturalgine/