[libreoffice-users] Re: I am downloading LibreOffice to try it out.

On 4/8/11 2:42 AM, aqualung wrote:

> Possibly what caused the "crossed wires" in this thread was the
> unfamiliarity of the second poster with this odd mailinglist/forum hybrid
> called Nabble.
>
> Others
> http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/03/14/how-large-is-the-libreoffice-community-a-mailing-list-approach/#comments
> have remarked  that LibreOffice should have a regular forum where users can
> go to ask for assistance.
>
> This Nabble was very hard to find for me, at the time I did not see it
> advertised prominently on any TDF / LibO web page. Now, I did know already
> about the two widely-trafficked OpenOffice volunteer forums, especially
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/.
>
> In the long run, however, it would be better either for LibO/TDF to set up
> their own forum (not a Nabble which poses extra difficulty) or to discuss
> with the management of the two premier OOo user forums a rebranding to give
> LibO equal billing.
>
> Mailing lists are not convenient or agreeable to the general public. People
> want a forum that works the way they are used to: not a Google user group,
> or two discussion pages on sourceforge.net, or a Nabble. This need not mean
> that mailing lists get shut down. Scribus, for example, is keeping its
> mailing lists but recently set up a  http://forums.scribus.net/index.php
> dedicated forum  as well.

If you think finding Nabble and other help in the Libre Office site is 
hard, try Mozilla!!  Horrendous!l  Great eye candy, but not particularly 
functional for finding help.

If Libre Office goes to a forum format, I'm outta here.  Forums are 
resource hungry and slow.  To me, forums assume the user is to stupid or 
ignorant to master newsgroups.  If you want efficiency, use newsgroups. 
 I access this mailing list via gmane.org, where access to a mailing 
list is reformatted to act like a newsgroup.  Far, far simpler and easy 
to use.

Now, if Libre Office offered both forum style access and newsgroup style 
access to the same help database, I wouldn't care.  But, if LO doesn't 
tell people about either or both ways of access help, then LO PTB can't 
complain about one or the other system not being used.



Ken


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