Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Smarty message board?

From: "Monte Ohrt" <monte@ispi.net> > 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? Moving to forums was a big step forward for Gallery. We had a fairly high volume mailing list (~30 messages a day) for our user discussions, but the lack of good searching (even with MARC) and strong threading (not all mail clients do this well) was holding us back. Forums with separate topics made a huge difference as it reduced some folks' inhibitions towards posting. Our traffic is now up to ~90 messages with a lot more cross-traffic than before. It tightly integrates with the rest of the website so it makes linking to documentation a more natural step. And the search feature is very heavily used, which has cut down on the repetitive requests for help. My one request is that you use a bulletin board that allows subscriptions so that I can still get emails from posts sent to certain topics. I know that PhpBB supports this. -Bharat