Re: [pygame] phpbb forum missing at pygame.org website

["Paulo Silva" <nitrofurano@xxxxxxxxx>]

another thing is it's much more easier to reply a post from 2 or 3
years old on a forum than on a mailing list... - these situations
happened also with me somehow regularly...

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Paulo Silva <nitrofurano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i'm one example of this - since long time mailing list exists (and i
> were using internet regularly for more than 10 years), and only now
> with gmail i'm getting enough 'courage' to subscribe into mailing
> lists - all the time i were (and will be for sure) much more addict of
> 'forae' (i'm not that good in latin language; is 'forae' the plural of
> 'forum'? ;-) )
>
> as well, i think also is lots easier to point an url of a forum post
> than locating an url of an archived post of mailing list... and
> getting posters connecting each others by this way...
>
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Nathan Whitehead <nwhitehe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:51 AM, James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The blog-like interface does allow posting. The newsgroup-thread
>>> interface does not.
>>
>> I like the idea of switching from a mailing list to phpBB.  There are
>> many great features of bulletin boards:
>>  * user icons
>>  * getting email notifications for some threads and not others
>>  * sticky topics and announcements
>>  * easy to moderate if necessary
>>  * syntax highlighting for code snippets
>>  * uniform interface for html links in messages
>>  * ability to upload screenshots and include in messages
>>
>> Apart from the features, I think nowadays people are more comfortable
>> joining a forum than subscribing to a mailing list.
>> --
>> Nathan Whitehead
>>
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