On 12/26/2015 01:40 PM, Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The problem with many forums and especially the Vintage Forums is that you have to visit them to see new posts and there is no decent mobile client. I do visit the Vintage Forums but miss out on many others Atari, Mercedes-Benz, 3D-Printing to name but a few, as these all require explicit visits to see posts. I really don't understand why Forums are better than UseNet news.
I think the root of this issue is the type of activity "using the Internet" is for different groups of people. For those people for whom getting online is a form of recreation, having time to burn, the "Oh, I'll go check over there and see what's going on!" type of "polling" system can work well as a leisure-time activity. But for those of us who work in front of a screen, the interrupt-driven nature of a mailing list tends to be a lot more efficient. I've thought about this a lot over the years, as I try to decipher the inexplicable mentality of the "Turn everything on the Internet into a WEB PAGE!!" people, and that's the best theory I've been able to come up with. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA