[TYPO3-english] Why there is not an " official " online Forum for TYPO3 ?

[Pierre-Emmanuel Muller]

Hi all,

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> Envoyé : samedi 25 avril 2009 20:59
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> Objet : Re: [TYPO3-english] Why there is not an " official " online Forum for
> TYPO3 ?
> 
> 
> On Apr 25, 2009, at 12:24 PM, David Bruchmann wrote:
> 
> > Hy Ahmed,
> >
> > In some points perhaps you're right, but I want to show another point:
> >
> > The german-spoken forums wouldn't have become so powerfull if there
> > would exist an official T3-Forum.
> > In France and in China there exist also Forums referring T3 and in
> > other
> > nations / languages too I suppose.
> > Creating a multilanguage-forum is no technical problem - who should
> > moderate all the languages? For most people it's even hard to decide
> > if
> > a post is spam or not in a foreign language ;-)
> 
> I don't think that moderation is an issue here.
> The issue is that apparently most T3 people like to use the
> mailinglists better?
> If I look at the dutch forum it's pretty much dead, the mailinglist is
> much more
> active compared to the forum.

+1
Only my two cents but mailinglists tend to be the perfect tool for powerusers.
Forum and mailinglists can live together but I think that developers prefers mailinglists. 
It doesn't surprise me that TYPO3 is a bit more powered through mailinglists than forums. It's also one of the only CMS to come without preinstalled website...

A big worldwide forum can be quite hard to manage. You have to be sure to have the resources to moderate it.

PeM

Ps : I prefer mailinglists ;)