On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> Or what http://www.kurzweilai.net/ does?
That site is so over-engineered it borders on unusable at times (IMHO).
> How are you going to get people to contribute magnet content,
> to get other people to contribute, making it a sustainable process?
The problems is even though many extropians like to think of
themselves as early-adopters and flexible, we really aren't.
Most people on the list are comfortable with email format.
The people that can't deal with the volume (those that would
perhaps like a /. interface) simply aren't on the list --
once you lose them its difficult to get them back.
I regularly peruse /. and nanodot and post less to them than
to the extropian list because the overhead is higher. The
same was true with javien forums (though the conversation
sorting made it a very appealing in some ways). One thing
that email has above /. is a relatively "real time"
interface and ease of following "conversations". To
get that with /. you have to install a headline scroller.
The last time I looked into this it looked more than a
little difficult. If we wanted to try /. again, one
of the essential components should be distributions of
headline scrollers that worked on Windows, Linux & perhaps
the Mac.
What is needed is an integration of /. and mailing lists
with an visual interface that can be switched between a
/. view and a forum view.
I think it is rumored that some of the integration between /. and
mailing lists may become available in the next release of the /. code.
Robert
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