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.
Yes, I understand this. I used to be more of a forum person, but things changed for me, essentially, when I got my gmail account. I find the 'label' system so good for tracking mailing lists that I can't imagine going back. While previously the idea of receiving huge amounts of mail offended me, nowadays checking on a forum just seems so chore-like to me. In any case, I've always found it funny that there aren't more forum-mailinglist combination systems out there, considering how similar the two concepts are. Some sort of phpBB-mailman integration could go a long way to solving that problem... I think there are some scripts available but it would probably take some work, and not necessarily be a good solution.
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 agree, there seems to be tons of cool ideas on the forum, I wish I'd checked it out earlier. It's nice to see people exploring chuck in various ways and coming up with UGen tricks as opposed to just discussing language semantics and such. (Though I'm a language nerd so I don't mind.. ;-)
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.
That is a really cool idea... and totally do-able. ajax-audicle anyone?? Steve