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Dan Kegel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">2008/2/21 Tom Wickline <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:twickline@gmail.com"><twickline@gmail.com></a>:
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<pre wrap=""> [if] the forums at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php">http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php</a> were not
popular enough to make this cut, may I ask how many users = popular?
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Well, let's see:
Ubuntuforums: Threads: 685,027, Posts: 4,364,352, Members: 509,031
Linuxforums: Threads: 111,640, Posts: 550,654, Members: 149,826
Linuxforen.de: Themen: 238.148, Beiträge: 1.602.009, Benutzer: 70.611
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine: Threads: 22,816; no idea how many
posts or members.
wine-forum.org: Threads: 174, Posts: 529, Members: 751
I think you have to grow by about two orders of magnitude
to complete. And even then, you'd be
fragmenting the user space. I rather doubt the
average Ubuntu user, comfortable in his or her Ubuntu
forum, will venture afield when there's a wine area right
there in the ubuntu forum site. Likewise, users comfortable
with the wine-users mailing list are unlikely to switch. etc.
By adding a new forum, you're decreasing the quality of
support in the existing ones.
- Dan
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Soo... the obvious thing to do is contact all the major Linux forums
with Wine sections, explain that we're trying to set up an official
forum, and see if they'll lock their Wine sections and redirect members
to the official forum.<br>
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If they all buy in, great. If not, keep the status quo.<br>
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--mmebane
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