Python forum

Dave Brueck dave at pythonapocrypha.com
Tue May 17 11:57:59 EDT 2005


Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-05-17, Jonas Melian <jonasmg at softhome.net> wrote:
>>I'm going to say a suggestion, why don't you create a forum
>>like the one of Ruby (http://www.rubyforums.com/)? for the
>>novices this is a great help, better than a mail list
[snip]
>>But I think that a forum is great for the learning. The test
>>is in gentoo's forums. They are a lot of experienced people
>>answering questions without any problem and it goes very well
> 
> 
> Except for the torture of using a web forum's UI.
> 
> [In case you can't tell, I hate web forums.  I've never seen a
> single one with a suable UI.]

Amen! Generally they are an abomination.

To make matters worse, many forums that become popular are saddled with so many 
advertisements that moving from one message to another becomes a... grueling... 
lesson... in... patience.

-Dave



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