Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

10 Jun 2012

      On 10 June 2012 19:40, Kwpolska  wrote:
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Mateusz Loskot  wrote:
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On 10 June 2012 19:25, Jayesh Badwaik  wrote:
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On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 19:14:19 Mateusz Loskot wrote:
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I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers
use the mailing lists in comparison to the number of people
registered to the Arch Forums?
Can we have some basic mailing lists statistics anywhere posted?
Personally, I prefer mailing lists, but I noticed the Forums traffic
is order of magnitude larger than the traffic on the lists.
I don't think I answer your question directly but still...
I believe people who use a desktop mail client prefer mailing list while
those who use the web interface for mail like gmail.com etc prefer
forums. This especially works if you are a long term mailing list user
and use POP3 mail and hence can search for question using your mail
client search.
The reason I posted request for some statistics, is that
users may be confused about where to send their requests
in order to reach the very core of the Arch community.
Certainly, variety is good as people have freedom of choice,
but freedom of choice has side effects too.
Anyway, I was just curious what part of developers and users
are subscribed to the mailing list and what part use forums.
I, for one, am subscribed to the lists (arch-announce,
arch-dev-public, arch-general, aur-general) and also have a forums
account.  The difference is I read 90% of the mails I get (ignoring
the signoff reports or other useless messages) and I haven't been on
the forums since a few years.
Thanks for the comment. Initially, I signed up and started using forums,
but it takes too much time to participate really (Web forums are always
more time consuming to me, so I'm not big fan of them, especially
if  heavy traffic occurs).

I think I'll switch to the lists only.
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Also, are all Arch developers subscribed to the mailing lists?
Most likely, yes.
Good to know :)

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net