[webteam] forum

[Robert Martinez]

Bart van Bragt wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 2:18 AM, Robert Martinez wrote:
>> I was just brainstorming here: 
>> http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Forum_Structure_Wiki
>>
>> What is missing, what is redundant?
>
>
> From experience: Don't start with too many forums.
>
> Start with the bare minimum of forums that's required to keep things 
> managable and usable.
>
> I'm thinking of something like:
>
> - Client issues
> - XMPP Development
> - Jabber.org issues
> - General chat
>
> Start with this and see how this works out. If, for example, client 
> issues attracts a boatload of messages and becomes too big to be 
> managable it's trivial to just add another forum to split this forum up.
>
> The big disadvantage of having 20 forums is that 16 of those will be 
> empty and they will stay empty because no-one is going to read 20 
> almost empty forums with close to no activity. The forum structure is 
> not a watertight taxonomy of all possible discussion topics, it should 
> be a structure that separates the discussions into manageable and 
> related topics. I've seen plenty of community sites die in a large 
> part because they started with 30 different forums and 30 users :)
>
> Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> Bart van Bragt
>
>
You're right.
It was probably a mistake to try to approach it with that many forums.

There will be only the 4 forums you named for now. the only problem for 
me is the name of the "Jabber.org issues" forum.
It is not clear if we are talking about the protocol, the service we run 
or the page we run. - What about calling it: "our Service" or "our 
Server"? :/