Re: Which list should I be posting to?
Re: Which list should I be posting to?
- Subject: Re: Which list should I be posting to?
- From: Roland King <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 21:10:14 +0800
> On 1 Jul 2017, at 20:17, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for proving that the official Apple list was not really unplugged
> yesterday. That doesn't mean it won't be unplugged any day now, however.
>
> What you call "a new one" was set up by one of this list's regular users as a
> privately-managed mailing list. As you say, it isn't getting much use,
> presumably in part because it has not been re-advertised on this list.
> Repetition is the heart and soul of marketing.
Yes I think we should remind people weekly that there is a list they can join
for the day someone really pulls the power plug. I should go promote it on the
USB list too, I’d hate to lose contact with those people.
>
> I have a feeling that we are or soon will be stuck with the official Apple
> forums going forward. Actually, if we all start using the official Apple
> forums, the experience level and utility of the forums should improve
> markedly.
It really won’t. With the best will in the world the official Apple Forums
(Fora) are very poor. I can never put my finger on what’s wrong with them, the
previous incarnation had loads of usability bugs but was still quite
attractive, the latest version has tons of style and lots of 10 point grey
fonts but feels sterile. Many of the prolific posters are gone and it’s a
ping-like wasteland of people asking questions which will never get answers.
Forums can work, I’m an active member of the Nordic Dev forum and it’s lively
and vibrant, but as soon as Apple rolled out the current iteration of forum,
everyone left, it just didn’t pan out.
These lists however have always been successful. The people who sign up and
stay, learn, and give back and a sense of community is formed. It’s a shame
that Apple in some kind of effort to be more facebook-y or instagram-ish or
snapchat-ified has lost sight of how serious developers actually want to
interact with each other.
Keep promoting the new lists, keep people signing up, the day these go away
only those who are ready will be ready.
I hope some of the Apple guys will sign up too, even if they do it quietly; the
contributions we get from people like David Duncan (and that is one example
only) are pure gold.
>
> Bill Cheeseman
>
>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Dave <email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I thought that the XCode List was going away and there was a new one. I’m
>> not seeing many messages to the new one, so which one do I post to?
>>
>> xcode users Users email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden> or email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave
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