Thoughts on kolab community hub / forum vs. mailing list

[Jan Kowalsky]

Hi all,

for quite a while now there exist this double structure of mailing lists
and forum for the kolab community. While I know forums feel much more
modern than the old mailing lists ;-) and - well - they might have some
advantages, personally I feel much more comfortable with mailing lists.
Ok this is just personally taste.

But the disadvantage for me in relation to the community: instead of
bundle all knowledge and community support in one place we now have two
places - and on both of them the number of posts decreased in the last
years.

For a while now there is more spam than serious posts on
https://kolab.org/hub/. Additionally the layout seems to be broken -
maybe because of some buggy css?

How do other think about this? Which is the platform you would rather
use? Does it make sense to support two platforms? Or is there a way to
bundle those both resources?

What does people from kolabsys think about?

Best regards
Jan

[Timotheus Pokorra]

Hello Jan, and all,

Post by Jan Kowalsky
for quite a while now there exist this double structure of mailing lists
and forum for the kolab community. While I know forums feel much more
modern than the old mailing lists ;-) and - well - they might have some
advantages, personally I feel much more comfortable with mailing lists.
Ok this is just personally taste.

I can cope with both. I have enabled notifications for the forum, so
that I get an email update for each post.
I am happy with mailinglists, but I guess for the next generation of IT
people, a forum is easier to use.

Post by Jan Kowalsky
For a while now there is more spam than serious posts on
https://kolab.org/hub/. Additionally the layout seems to be broken -
maybe because of some buggy css?

There was a user that got permissions to clear out the spam posts. I
cannot remember the user's name.

The broken layout of the hub really annoys me. That should have been
fixed a long time ago.
Ah, I posted a bug around last year, https://git.kolab.org/T2268, and it
seems the login functionality was fixed.
But the layout really puts off people from using the forum, and it does
not look alive and inviting.

Timotheus

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