[mono-android] [MonoTouch] Introducing the Xamarin Forums

[Sebastian Krysmanski]

Not everyone, who wants to ask one simple question, likes to subscribe to
every(!) question asked by anyone else. That's why I hate mailing lists if
I just want to ask a single question. A forum allows you to only follow the
questions you're interested in/that you've asked. Optionally, you can
subscribe to new topics. Then you will only be notified about new topics,
but only once. If you're not interested in this topic, the forum won't
bother you again. Not so with mailing lists where you can't unsubscribe
from a certain topic. You get all the noise, your inbox fills up pretty
quickly (especially if you've subscribed to multiple mailing lists), and it
gets harder to find the topics you're actually interested in. So, in my
opinion, forums are definitely the way to go.

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Wally McClure <theevilprogrammer at hotmail.com
> wrote:

> if that capability is there, the default option is for email to be turned
> on, not off.  Also, does this turn on email for all posts to the sight?  If
> not, then the option is useless.
>
> If the example is what is listed below, then the email is still useless.
> I am not going to go to a site to see if it is something I am interested
> in.  Do this like linkedin does where I get emails about what is happening
> with a lot of content.  Technically, linkedin doesn't give me enough
> content, but it gives me more than what I read below.  I like noisy forums!
>
> Wally
>
> PS.  Still love you guys. :-)
>
> > From: jonp at xamarin.com
> > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 10:22:33 -0400
> > To: monodroid at lists.ximian.com
> > CC: mail at johnhair.com; monotouch at lists.ximian.com
>
> > Subject: Re: [mono-android] [MonoTouch] Introducing the Xamarin Forums
> >
> > On Oct 5, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Wally McClure <theevilprogrammer at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Web forums don't reach out and touch me.
> >
> > This one can. From forums.xamarin.com, click the small "world" icon to
> the right of your login name ("Notifications" is the hover-text), then
> click Notification Preferences. You can then enable Email notifications for
> ALL threads and posts (including all replies!) in the Category
> Notifications section:
> >
> > http://www.jprl.com/tmp/x/4eae6326.png
> >
> > If you don't see a Category Notifications section, yell profusely at
> nat. ;-)
> >
> > The one downside is that, while you'll get an email whenever something
> "interesting" happens, the email isn't particularly useful, e.g.:
> >
> > > Subject: [xamarin] Cheesebaron commented on Converted FlowLayout.java
> won't process xml paramaters
> > >
> > > Cheesebaron commented on Converted FlowLayout.java won't process xml
> paramaters
> > >
> > > Follow the link below to check it out:
> > > http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/156#Comment_156
> > >
> > > Have a great day!
> >
> > So there's a notification + a URL + some information about what the
> message is in reply to, but there's no "content". It's still useful, and
> it's still spamming my inbox, so I'm "happy" (I'd be happier with actual
> message content...). Plus, it makes the forums actually USEFUL to me, as I
> don't need to "poll" to see if threads I've replied to have gotten further
> responses.
> >
> > - Jon
> >
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