[webteam] External Forum

[Petteri]

I have been lurking on this list, and since I commented earlier about
the jabber.org drupal forum, I'll add my comments about this issue also.

Florian Jensen kirjoitti ma 14. huhtikuuta 2008 21:32:36:
> Hey guys,
>
> I know we spoke about this in the meeting, but I wanted to poke you
> guys again about this.
>
> Today I have set up the domain jabberforum.org . I installed
> vBulletin, yes, it's not free, but is extremely fast and is a great
> forum.

vBulletin is great product, but I think it gives a funny image about the
Jabber community not to use a free/opensource alternative like
phpbb3. It is like saying Jabber community don't really emphasize all
these great values from: http://www.jabber.org/why-use-jabber ,
especially when alternatives like Unclassified NewsBoard and phpbb3 have
built in jabber support.

> So, I wanted to ask, what you think of the idea of making it the
> official jabber.org forum.
>
> Let me explain why.
>
> Why should we have a full Database of users on Jabber.org? Users can't
> really do much with an account on Jabber.org. People confuse it with a
> XMPP account.
>
> Jabber.org has some serious load issues. We could really use every bit
> of spare resources.
>
> User Database: Yes, it is another login to keep track of, but I don't  
> think that is a big problem for the most of us.
>
> Anything I am missing?

All those are good points and it would be really nice to see proper
Jabber forum. I think the current drupal forum is a bit confusing, even
vBulletin might be better ;)

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