[Wine] Forum vs Mailing lists - by the numbers

Marcel W. Wysocki maci at satgnu.net
Thu Apr 3 02:27:55 CDT 2008


On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:37:30 -0500
Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> wrote:

> So, if we look at January, the last month without the forum:
>   http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-January/thread.html
> we had 226 posts.
> 
> If we look at March, the first full month with the forum:
>   http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-March/thread.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 <maci at satgnu.net>
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