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Thoughts on a new 43F board?
Merlin Also | Oct 24 2005
I like the Google group, and it's hard to argue with its relative success. Three thousand eight hundred forty one people (at this moment) are using it in some form or fashion, and it's been a reliable, relatively high-volume source of interesting conversation, great tips, and enjoyable elbow-rubbing. But some things about it kind of bug me. 1. It's flat - There's only one area to wrangle all the different conversations, and it can be kind of hard to keep up when things get busy (or, for example, when the higher-volume threads go afield of something that interests me) In sum, although I'm not married to the idea, I think it might be fun to try hosting our own conversations on 43 Folders, using prettier software that allows for more broken-out conversations. Although we'd be doing this less as a mailing list and more as a regular old board, we'd still have RSS, which is nice. Best of all, there'd be feeds, per topic. So Windows folks could avoid Mac talk and vice versa, etc. I don't want to disrupt the community on the Google Group by any means, but I'd like to hear what people think about doing a board here. I'll be posting more in the coming days about what I'd like to do, but feel free to give me your basic gut check by responding to this topic. TIA. 30 Comments
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 I agree: I'm probably more...Submitted by ndench on October 25, 2005 - 12:40am.
I agree: I'm probably more prone to posting to a board than sending a mail, but the advantage of mail is that you don't have to go looking for it. (Of course, that can be its disadvantage too -- it can sit there any make you feel guilty, even if it's not high priority for you, but I digress ...). However, one of the great things about 43F is that, despite it being weighted towards Mac users, it doesn't alienate those of us stuck with Windows, at least not most of the time. Although I'm happy to avoid the _real_ Mac talk (like cute uses for Quiksilver, for instance), and I can see the advantage of different boards for different topics, I'd hate to miss out on some of the more interesting stuff because the available boards made the distinction between the platforms too specific. Of course, ultimately, this is down to where the poster decided to post, but I'd hope the choice of boards would be rich enough to accommodate this. » POSTED IN:
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