Re: [SMARTY] RE: [SMARTY-DEV] Smarty message board?

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:52:54PM -0600, Gary Loescher wrote: > I think that is an excellent idea. There's a comprehensive search > function, too...that way people will have one place to go to for > Smarty help, and can easily search for previous posts that may have > already answered their questions. > > Also, phpBB has a good subscription facility, so people can have the > best of both worlds if they still want messages appearing in their in > box. > > I don't see any downside to this, except that some people will > probably prefer an email client interface. yes, i prefer an email interface. for search in the archive i really love http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=smarty-general&r=1&w=2 . even in lynx it performs great. webbrowsing on my machine at work is rather slow (mips r4400 250mhz) so i love usenet/mail/etc. more than the idea of copying everything to www that worked in a terminal for ages. the gui of most web-applications is really bad and often there is not much room to improve handling of them: no learning curve, no tasks that can be automated easily, no keyboard-shortcuts. i don't know phpbb very good, but i don't think it is that different to all the boards i encountered. it seems i am the minority here, so i definately will move with you if you want to put this list to a web-based message board. but i don't think that it is an improvement. just my opinion(tm) messju > Gary > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Monte Ohrt [mailto:monte@ispi.net] > >Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:25 PM > >To: Smarty General; Smarty Dev > >Subject: [SMARTY-DEV] Smarty message board? > > > > > >What does everyone thing of the idea of moving Smarty discussions to a > >message board / forum as opposed to e-mail lists? They are highly > >useful, colorful, searchable, managable, don't clutter the inbox, etc. > > > >Check out http://www.phpbb.com/ (phpbb runs on its own > >template engine > >built with a lot of Smarty code, btw). Click the "community" link, then > >"support" to see the support forum for an example. > > > >Thoughts? Pros/Cons? > > > >Monte > > > > > >-- > >Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > Smarty General Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Webstuhl: Vornehme Ausdrucksweise für die Scheiße, die Webdesignsoftware auswirft. Holger Veit