[FLOW3-general] Best Practice for a plugin-based app in flow3

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi Zach,

Zach Davis wrote:

> I'm not wild about forums either, to be honest. However, I think there's
> an important distinction between newsgroups and mailing lists. Few
> people in my office routinely read the TYPO3 newsgroups because doing so
> requires using thunderbird or some dedicate newsgroup reader (apple mail
> doesn't do it, last I checked). Many people in my office subscribe to
> mailing lists, which can be read by anyone with an email address.

lists.typo3.org allows you to subscribe to the newsgroups as mailing lists.
Newsgroups and mailing lists are synced.

> The nice thing about google groups is that they are familiar and both
> developers and users likely already follow other groups. You lose that
> familiarity when you make people download a newsgroup client and
> configure it to access the group. Not the end of the world, but TYPO3
> and FLOW3 aren't so popular these days where it's number one problem is
> figuring out how to increase the barrier to entry to keep down the
> number of questions.

I do not know much about google groups, because I never used them to post 
and only sometimes read the archives.

Best regards
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