I try to support TAChart users on Lazarus forums, but since I have no time to read forums
every day, I regularly miss posts. Recent examples include

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,8568.0.html that I missed completely, and
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,8887.0.html that I found only because OP bumped the thread recently.

I try to encourage users to move to the mailing list, but this of course only works for those whose posts I notice.

Do other developers have similar problem? How do you cope? Maybe it would be good idea to push users to always use mailing list?

Alexander Klenin wrote

Do other developers have similar problem? How do you cope? Maybe it would be good idea to push users to always use mailing list?

No. I don't read mail list the last time. Only few mails per day or threads which I started. I simple have no time for development if I read too much.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

Alexander Klenin wrote

I try to support TAChart users on Lazarus forums, but since I have no time to read forums every day, I regularly miss posts. Recent examples include

is there no option on the front forum page to "read new posts"?? i use this on the numerous forums i participate in all the time... yes, if i miss a day or two there's a lot of posts to catch up on but... i just have to wade in and start at the last one in the list (which is the oldest) and go on thru them...

i also have a routine that i use... once i get the list of new posts, when i read a thread, i use my BACK button to return to the list and then move up to the next message... if i write a reply, i use the BACK button to move back thru the editing of that reply and then again to move back to the thread and then once more to get back to the list of new posts... this way, i don't loose the list and it doesn't change on me ;)

Alexander Klenin wrote

I try to support TAChart users on Lazarus forums, but since I have no time to read forums every day, I regularly miss posts. Recent examples include

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What's "forums"? :-P

Best regards,
Fl?vio

I do not read all posts too, but I can use filtering capabilities of e-mail application (GMail in my case) to highlight interesting messages automatically.

The option exists, the problem is that there are too many new posts to read.

2010/3/17 Fl?vio Etrusco :

Well, currently it is mostly
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and
http://www.freepascal.ru/forum

I actually use a google query like
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=(TAChart|TChart)+lazarus to search for TAChart-related posts.
I do occasionally see questions on other forums, like these: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.com.br/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=226 and http://www.developpez.net/forums/d714066/autres-langages/pascal/lazarus/affichage-temps-labscisse-tchart/ but although I can understand what these are talking about from code samples, I can not respond because I do not know these languages.

Still now there is no good community engine (forums or cms) good for developers, most of developers special the core team must not spend there time to reading all messages/posts, but what if there is important/high quality need an answers from admin/core, may be we need moderators to forward this links of posts (like "report") to developer team like as AssignTo in bug tracker.

Maybe you can add your preference on http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TAChart too. You can even specify that you prefer to have those post on a certain subforum, so you would only have to monitor on forum for latest posts.

Do other developers have similar problem? How do you cope? Maybe it would be good idea to push users to always use mailing list?

In my experience it is easier to find information on forums than in mailing list archives.

Vincent

Vincent Snijders wrote

Maybe you can add your preference on http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TAChart

Good idea. Done.

Hm. That's not my experience. I intensely dislike forums. If it's not in the mailing list, it doesn't happen for me :-)

Michael.

Or add a google alert for the forum url and tachart|tchart. I am not sure how quick google indexes the forum, but i'm sure it's not too slow. I searched google for the lazarus book for sale that was posted today and it found it already.