website: add links to most popular active Wine forums

[Tom Wickline]

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3949/googlegroupsmozillafirejz8.png

And Google Groups has 738 subscribers :D

There for a second I was feeling rather poorly about the wine-forum site.

So, I suppose the forums I put up are about as destructive as Goggle Groups.
Actually 13 Members less destructive.

-Tom


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> 2008/2/21 Tom Wickline <twickline at gmail.com>:
>  >  [if] the forums at http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php were not
>
> >  popular enough to make this cut, may I ask how many users = popular?
>
>  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
>