OpenEuphoria

Re: H2O Forum

• Posted by Irv <irvm at ellijay.com> Oct 28, 2003
• 426 views

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 02:39 pm, you wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the vote of confidence Irv and Tommy.
>
> Irv, what category would you say tutorials should be in?

"Tutorials" ? :)

> Current setup permits discussion in many of the more popular
> discussions that occur on the EuForum (topica) as I see them.
> Please let me know if you would like to add a specific forum
> topic and it will appear as soon as I read your email.

I'd say keep the topics as they are - for questions and answers about 
specific things. Then have a separate "Tutorials" topic, where there could 
be beginner, moderate, and advanced threads. 

The problem with Topica is that after a few days, messages are no longer 
easy to find, even with RDS' search facility, so it's a poor place for 
tutorials which might be useful to someone far into the future.

The problem with hosting tutorials on a web page is that there is a lack of 
interaction (unless there's some kind of blog), and peoples' questions can be 
as useful as the answers.  So it seems as if the forum would be a good place 
for such a thing. 

Irv

> Al Getz asked for a forum for his new WinClass OO library
> to spark interest in his library (which is nicely done btw Al)
> Although no activity in this forum the author in this case should
> find this type of forum will allow him/her to collectively monitor
> questions and keep track of these questions so guiding users to
> this collective spot can help the author and user audience.
> I can allow authors to moderate a particular forum topic so they
> would have edit and deletion power, if I am unable to monitor
> topics to suit their needs.
>
> There is an off topic arena that would allow off topic discussion
> but those messages are automatically deleted from the database
> after they reach 14 days old. Most of the other forums do not
> have a time limit.
>
> I hoped to have a dialup bandwidth savy interface up by now but
> as with all new projects come the inevitable initial flaws.
> Currently the default forum style is fairly small and pretty fast to load.
>
> If you havent taken a look or are an older member take a new look.
> http://h2osoft.homeip.net
>
> btw, I plan to change the URL soon to //eu.mygso.com
>
> Regards,
> Euman