On 15/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Sinclair</b> <<a href="mailto:radarsat1@gmail.com">radarsat1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Thanks for that reference! Tons of good ideas there..<br>I never even thought of checking the online forum since I much prefer<br>the mailing list and always forget there is another place where people<br>discuss chuck.. :)
</blockquote><div><br><br>I suppose I should respond to that since I should probably get some of the blame (and possible credit) for the situation.<br><br>It turns out that there are people who prefer a forum and others prefer a list while yet others (like me) think both are nice in different ways. Somehow it looks like the forum appears more accessible to people who are just starting out or are considering to jump in. The forum -so far- also seems more conductive to colaborations, while the list tends to be more in-depth on a technological level especially once the bugs hit the fan. I believe there is (was?) also a ICQ channel as well but personally I don't like chat all that much, still that channel spawned the "one line game" so that's already quite worthwhile. Oh, and we have a WiKi too which is turning out to be quite good for centralised bug-fix and feature requests.
<br><br>I think this is a good situation, much like it's good to have plain ChucK and two Audicles (and ~chuck and.....?) but the price is indeed that there may be confusion from time to time. Perhaps in the future there will be some sort of communication method that combines all of the above system's strong points as well as a public shared VM capable of streaming for online jam-sessions but until then I think that so far the price is worth the gains.
<br><br>I'll be the last to tell anyone who doesn't like fora to subscribe to one but I would like to point out that generally it's considered rude to send larger attachments to lists while the forum gives all members a "allowance" for file uploads so if you'd like to share larger files it may be a good option.
<br></div><br></div>Yours,<br>Kas<br>