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: Richard Charles <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 11:03:39 -0600
> On Jul 1, 2017, at 7:10 AM, Roland King <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
I think it is really boils down to style over substance. You can see it in a
number of areas (documentation, developer forums, software, hardware). Apple
has been very successful delevering style and substance. However when style
completely dominates and substance is thrown out the window you know that
something has gone horribly wrong. I mean who really wants to drive a Porsche
911 with a 70 hp Volkswagen engine.
--Richard Charles
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