Forum vs Mailing lists - by the numbers

jwhite · Post by **jwhite** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:38 am

So, if we look at January, the last month without the forum:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-us ... hread.html
we had 226 posts.

If we look at March, the first full month with the forum:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-us ... hread.html
we had 2136 posts.

Even if you say that 1,000 of those posts were meta posts with complaints from
us Mailman lovers, that's still at least a 5 fold increase in traffic.

I found that compelling, so I thought I would share.

I've long had a strong bias for mailing lists, but I think this
is an important lesson for me to accept. If we want to engage and
embrace all visitors to Wine - not just the ones that think as I do -
we need to make sure the forums are strong and work well.

Sigh. First Wikis, now forums. What's next? Am I going to have to twitter
and text message with my thumbs? </grumpy old man>
<grin>

Cheers,

Jeremy

Marcel W. Wysocki · Post by **Marcel W. Wysocki** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:29 am

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:37:30 -0500
Jeremy White <[email protected]> wrote:

So, if we look at January, the last month without the forum:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-us ... hread.html
we had 226 posts.

If we look at March, the first full month with the forum:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-us ... hread.html
we had 2136 posts.

Even if you say that 1,000 of those posts were meta posts with complaints from
us Mailman lovers, that's still at least a 5 fold increase in traffic.

I found that compelling, so I thought I would share.

I've long had a strong bias for mailing lists, but I think this
is an important lesson for me to accept. If we want to engage and
embrace all visitors to Wine - not just the ones that think as I do -
we need to make sure the forums are strong and work well.

Sigh. First Wikis, now forums. What's next? Am I going to have to twitter
and text message with my thumbs? </grumpy old man>
<grin>

Cheers,

Jeremy

yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad.

--
Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]>
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austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:18 am

On 4/3/08, Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:

yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad.

They also walk all over my lawn!

Dotan Cohen · Post by **Dotan Cohen** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:25 am

On 03/04/2008, Austin English <[email protected]> wrote:

On 4/3/08, Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:
yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad.
They also walk all over my lawn!

I vote that a new user must prove that he knows who cowboyneal is
before he can post.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
×

Timeout · Post by **Timeout** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:33 am

[/quote]
yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad.

[quote]

I don't think that has only to do with the age (even if I am a few weeks short of 30

)

I receive about 40 mails a day, my e-mail which I didn't have time to tidy for a couple of weeks has now 767 mails (unwanted already deleted).
Do you even think I will bother about a mailer?

you can contact me on MSN messenger, IRC or forum but I will keep my e-mail out of it (furthermore, I find it easier to keep track of questions online).

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:51 am

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On 4/3/08, Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:
yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad.
They also walk all over my lawn!
I vote that a new user must prove that he knows who cowboyneal is
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Paul Johnson
[email protected]
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Frank · Post by **Frank** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:47 pm

On Thursday 03 April 2008 01:24:18 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
Quote:
On 03/04/2008, Austin English <[email protected]> wrote:
Quote:
On 4/3/08, Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:
Quote:
yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad.

They also walk all over my lawn!

I vote that a new user must prove that he knows who cowboyneal is
before he can post.

The only two voting options will be "Yes" and "CowboyNeal". There is only one
correct answer.

I remember 2 years ago on April 1 that Cowboy Neal did the OMG Pink Ponys page, wonder if that is in google cash somewhere, Would love to see it again.
Frank[/quote]

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:59 pm

I can't believe you guys still use keyboards.

Dotan Cohen · Post by **Dotan Cohen** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:59 am

On 04/04/2008, Frank <[email protected]> wrote:

I remember 2 years ago on April 1 that Cowboy Neal did the OMG Pink Ponys page,
wonder if that is in google cash somewhere, Would love to see it again.

http://www.metlin.org/content/blog/omgponies.jpg

Kubuntu did it to the beta version of their upcoming OS this year:
http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/foolsSS-wee.png

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
×

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:24 am

http://www.metlin.org/content/blog/omgponies.jpg

Kubuntu did it to the beta version of their upcoming OS this year:
http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/foolsSS-wee.png

Thanks Dotan, that made my day!
Frank

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:50 pm

Paul Johnson wrote:

On Thursday 03 April 2008 01:24:18 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 03/04/2008, Austin English <[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/3/08, Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:
sad.
They also walk all over my lawn!
I vote that a new user must prove that he knows who cowboyneal is
before he can post.
The only two voting options will be "Yes" and "CowboyNeal". There is
only one
correct answer.

You guys have to stop this. Now I have to go clean Mountain Dew off of
the screen, again

I'm off to work on that bug again....

James McKenzie