[Developers] Ontological forum?

[Kirrily Robert]

On 9/11/07, Sarah Milstein <sarah at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
>  So as Robert noted, one possibility--and it's available right now--is to
> start threads on the existing data modeling guide. In addition to immediacy,
> this spot has the advantage of collecting info in an area where other
> Freebasers will look in the future. The disadvantage is that we don't yet
> have RSS for individual discussions, so you'd have to check back for
> updates.

I'd say that RSS feeds and/or email notification for discussions were
pretty much at the top of my wishlist for FB right now.  It's one of
the things that makes it hardest to use, having to manually go and
check for messages somewhere where I'm not already looking.  And I'm
betting that heaps of people never know about replies they get, or
discussions that might be of interest to them, and hence don't stay
involved as much as they might.

>  If there's a preference for listserving these conversations, we could keep
> them on this list for a little while (a week? a month?) until there's
> critical mass to spawn a new list. Or, if there's the desire for such a list
> right now, we can set one up. We do, of course, keep archives of the list/s,
> but at the moment, they're separate from Freebase.com.

Sounds good to me.  I think that quick little off-the-cuff comments
are well suited to FB itself, but in-depth discussions are better in
email.

K.

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