14 Mar
2024
14 Mar
'24
6:44 a.m.
Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> writes:
Now, I find that there is a fragmentation happening.
There are
those
of us
who still cling to mailing lists - like this one! - and those
who
are
willing to navigate the realms of increasingly compartmentalized
other
forms of community, Discord included. The fact that there is not
a
recognized central repository of unpaid support for a product,
like
sun-managers, I find to be frustrating.
i basically agree. i won't dwell on this too much further because
i
recognise that i'm going off-topic, list-wise, but:
i think part of the problem is related to different people having
different preferences around the interfaces they want/need for
discussions. What's happened is that - for reasons i feel are
typically due to a lock-in-oriented business model - many
discussion
systems don't provide different interfaces/'views' to the same
underlying discussions. Which results in one community on platform
X,
another community on platform Y, another community on platform Z
.... Whereas, for example, the 'Rocksolid Light' BBS/forum
software
provides a Web-based interface to an underlying NNTP-based system,
such that people can use their NNTP clients to engage in forum
discussions. i wish this sort of approach was more common.
Alexis.