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

[Ries van Twisk]

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>> On Apr 25, 2009, at 12:24 PM, David Bruchmann wrote:
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>>> Hy Ahmed,
>>>
>>> In some points perhaps you're right, but I want to show another  
>>> point:
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>>> 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 ;-)
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>> 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.
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> +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...

It does surprise me that the IRC channel isn't more buzy though..  
During peak times 1 or 2 years
ago we could reach up-to 100 people, but it's back to an average of 45  
I think.

You do see that a lot of developers of some great projects hang out on  
IRC, unfortunately this isn't the
case in TYPO3.

Ries

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> A big worldwide forum can be quite hard to manage. You have to be  
> sure to have the resources to moderate it.
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> PeM
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> Ps : I prefer mailinglists ;)
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