Re: groups.io for Felder Woodworking?
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As part of my work, I have done -a lot- of data migrations and over 80% of the time, these are useless: the old data is outdated or its value overestimated by the clients. For example, in the case of this forum, I have a hard time giving any value to the archives because in all my Felder/Hammer googling, it never came up in the search results. And lets be frank: if you dont show up in Google results, you dont exist for people who dont know where to look at. Maybe my keywords were too broad but they are still a good sample of what a new comer would use.
That being said, I am not proposing myself to do the switch to Discourse. A move to is a much easier transition, I just wanted to show what is possible. Also, data migration is not mandatory to switch to another forum: the old threads will still exist, nothing is deleted. It is just that new content is created elsewhere and with Google giving importance to content creation date, the new forum home would quickly rise in the search results.
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 12:25 AM, murkyd@... [felder-woodworking] <felder-woodworking@...> wrote:
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I certainly didn't intend to start a? debate what's the "best" forum software.? As John says, a key issue is the energy to convert and be responsible as new owner (presumably not Renzetti).
I could have been more specific in my first post.?The reason has some popularity for former Yahoo groups is that it has a free version that meets many small forum needs, and it has tools to automate conversion from Yahoo.? ?So it holds the potential to be easy to convert, and a better (not best) forum.
Certainly is not as sexy as , but the latter doesn't meet the criteria of simple and free.
I was curious if the forum owner was thinking about these things, and it seems that's been answered -- the forum owner doesn't visit the forum ;-)
Mark ?
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