Re: Forum software

On 11 September 2013 17:00, Paul Taulborg <njaguar@gmail.com> wrote: > Clearly it is broken, which is why this topic and Wake Up are the most > active this group has seen in the last year, in only a few hours of time. > I'm going to generalise a lot, and there are obviously exceptions, however most of the users who are active in these threads are ones you don't see generally posting on the list at all. I don't find it strange that everyone rushing to contribute how wonderful a "forum" would be have not contributed much to many other discussions here, while many of those who state they do not see any benefit in a "forum" are mostly very regular contributors to both the list and the language. I get it, a lot of people feel the discussions here are inaccessible, and these threads are "easy to contribute to". This is the internals list, and I personally feel that the content _should_ be above that of a general users list. A list about how PHP works / should work under the hood is akin to a list about brain surgery on humans. I certainly wouldn't go to a brain surgery list and expect to just jump into the discussions. However if I had a well researched, well written and valid question, I'm sure I'd get a response. I'm not saying this list does not have it's problems. I don't think a change in format will do anything positive for it though.