Ubuntu users LiveJournal

[sparkes]

James McCormick wrote:
> I just set up an unofficial LiveJournal account for Ubuntu users to come 
>  and discuss our favorite distrobution without having to deal with the 
> massive load on the newsgroup/mailing list.  This generally makes it 
> easier to access posts on a specific topic, which is something I have 
> difficulty with using the mailing list or the regular unofficial forums.
> 
> If you want to join, the url is http://www.livejournal.com/~ubuntu_users.
> 
> 
I don't really understand why you want to split the community at this 
stage.  The forums are intergrated with the mailing list and although 
they create some nasty messages sometimes at least the community can 
communicate together using these various formats in one place.

This makes it easier for users to get help and understand where ubuntu 
is going and for developers to gauge response and gather feedback.

If it's just chat you want the old sounders list has been redescribed as 
a chat zone where nothing is offtopic.

The live journal would need a member of the development team to 
continually post just to get people to create bugzilla reports.

As for the fact the mailing list is difficult to search isn't that 
googles job?

I can't understand the reasons for this community attempting to fragment 
so much even before a product is released.  It's something I have never 
seen before (but to be fair the only large projects I have been so close 
to for a *long* time have been more mature) imagine where we would be if 
the linux community had fragmented so much in it's first 3 months?  I 
doubt we would be having this conversation now.

sparkes

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