<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>The problem of the forum is the audience.</div><div><br></div><div>1/ The forums already exist, so this question is nonsense. One in KDE infrastructure, one in Pixls.us<br></div><div><br></div><div>2/ Who will respond to the forum ? the users or the developers ? It cannot be the developers, as we already maintain the mailing list and bugzilla. Multiplying more and more the communication channels is not humanly possible.</div><div><br></div><div>3/ We cannot leave the digikam-users mailing list.</div><div><br></div><div>Voilà...</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards<br></div><div>Gilles Caulier<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 18 janv. 2022 à 09:14, Jack Marxer <<a href="mailto:jmarxer@gmail.com">jmarxer@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">I want to thank the digiKam developers for all the work they have done in developing and maintaining such a wonderful program!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">I also would like to use a forum, but I don't know if there is someone who would be willing to develop and maintain it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Jack Marxer</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:03 AM Ty Mayn <<a href="mailto:tyrus.mayn@gmail.com" target="_blank">tyrus.mayn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> After study of the public viewable archives I see that discussion is more immediate on this oldfashioned Mailman listservice. Its clear to me that it is small but has some responsive leaders with knowledge.</div><div> Meanwhile the similarly named digikam Forum hosted by kde is small and more inactive. After posting there this January I resorted to answering my own posting just to be partially useful<br></div><div></div><div><a href="https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=256" target="_blank">https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=256</a></div><div> The energy on this list service deserves better tools.</div><div><a href="https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/</a></div><div>The archive has at least 17 years of useful knowledge zipped into 204 separate months that no newcomer (or even old user)will easily search.</div><div> Has anyone ever prepared and circulated a consolidated archive ready for global search?<br></div><div> Every posting member has their participating email exposed to weak masking that only replaces @ with "at" while the forum tools at KDE have good authentication and member shelter.</div><div> Am I the only one to have spoken on this issue? I would have to search the archives to know but I suppose each current member has a view and every pattern has inertia. Please accept this as a positive input on a good thing</div><div>Ty Mayn<br></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div></div>
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