Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:24:35 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 08:53:18PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 06:15:21PM +0100, Ian Molton wrote:
> > > Which web forum has the commuity moved to then? I should like to
> > > join it...
> >
> > Sadly, the Debian project is not willing to move with the times and
> > bless a modern web support community such as Discourse (a Stack
> > Overflow or AskUbuntu-like interface, for those who are unaware).
>
> There it is, the "modern times" meme and the "mail is old" meme.
>
> I have seen lots of it. I have used Discourse (one of the communities
> I take part in tried to move from a mailing list to Discourse: the
> "forum" crawls on, as a half-zombie and a write-only medium, the real
> action, is, five years on, still on the ML). Personally, I do hate
> Discourse, with passion. As most of those fora.
>
> I won't go into details, because this is bound to be one of those
> monster threads: let's agree on "it is a matter of taste".
>
> Nothing to do with "modern".
>
A lot of people confuse the words 'modern' and 'new' with the word
'better'.
Old people are largely more 'set in their ways' because they have seen
a great many new ways tried and found wanting.
--
Joe
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