That is true. But I find the fact
that you can create forums by category to be rather convenient and
powerful. For example, If I care only to view the “How-To” (http://www.amibroker.org/boards/viewforum.php?f=20&sid=1e01474fa80d539dafb2769d2816ba5b)
articles or view posts related to only “Scripting” (http://www.amibroker.org/boards/viewforum.php?f=16&sid=1e01474fa80d539dafb2769d2816ba5b)
, I know exactly where to go. With an email list, that is not easy to
find, as everything is pretty much lumped into one flat view and you must
search to filter out any topics you are not interested.
Also, the search capabilities are also fairly
decent for the message board and you do not need a third party software. You
can search all boards or only a specific category or sub category.
If you wanted to see everything, you can,
as it’s easy to see what topics or forums are active and what the latest
posts are in those forums. If you only wanted to track a certain topic
and do not care about other “noise” you can also do that, although I
think this feature may need to be enabled. I know the software they are
using for the message boards allow it (this software is used by many other
companies that setup “community” or support boards). Further,
you have the ability to send private message to other forum members without
having to reveal your email if you choose to.
Lastly, for board operators, important
discussion topics can be “stickied” and will always appear at the
top of that forum. What that means is that a forum can contain important
topics, notices or other reference posts which can always be found at the top
of the forum. So for instance, in the “Scripting” forum, the
AFL formula reference can be stickied so that it will always be available at
the top of that forum as a reference.
All that said, the board is there for
those who care to use, and yahoo is available for those who are to use
it. I prefer the boards, others prefer email. The only issue I have
is that I don’t think the boards are monitored as much as the email list
for support related topics…so I tend to ask questions that should be
directed to AmiBroker support here in the email list.
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Thomas Z
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005
2:18 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker]
Discussion board Vs Yahoo
Hi,
but through email you can build-up a large message database and in combination
with thunderbird or any other fast mail client
you can search thousands of messages in a couple of seconds and the result list
is very comfortable. Everything goes much faster.
Regards
Thomas
www.tradingbasis.com
dimension@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I prefer the discussion board as it’s much more
organized and easier to search. With yahoo, everything is just lumped
into one, no way to categorize discussion topics.
You can receive email notifications I
believe with the message boards when ever someone replies to your
topic/question. It’s a shame it’s not used more and not
promoted much.
Hi,
i prefer the yahoo board because i can send and receive messages through email
automatically.
So i don't have to go to any website and refresh and ....
Regards
Thomas
www.tradingbasis.com
tintin92 wrote:
Hi,
I just wonder why Ami Broker subscribers use the yahoo group more
extensively than:
http://www.amibroker.org/boards/
The advantage of the latter is that its easier to search and is more
organised than the yahoo group.Which would basicall mean that archives
will be more accessible and more useful.
Any thoughts? Am i missing some thing?
I dont know why.
Personally I prefer board than mailing-list.
But the habit at AB seem to be mailing-list.
I regret than there is a link to the AmiBroker Users' mailing list on the
support page but nothing about the AmiBroker Board.
http://www.amibroker.com/support.html
If there was more advertising about board and less about AmiBroker Users'
mailing list, I think the habit could change.
Tintin92
take care
Rizwan
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