[mythtv-users] Forum better than mailing list

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at gorpe.com
Thu Dec 25 10:51:45 EST 2003


reflex wrote:

>Hello,
>
>There are thousands of questions about mythtv. Does it support my
>card, can I have this feature, why does it not work with
>$Mydistro??
>
>Getting MythTV to work is not that easy. But the biggest problem
>is the lack of proper documentation. It works for me now more or
>less but I had to surf google all the time and distiguish between
>unrelated info and outdated info.
>
>We could greatly improve the documentation section if you would
>provide a Good Forum(tm) like phpBB and create several sections
>like
>
>Installation probs:
>-------------------
>MythBackend
>MythFrontend
>MythTV Modules
>	MythTV
>	     XMLTV Fetching problem for non supported countries
>	MythMusic
>	MythDVD
>	etc.
>
>Feature Requests:
>-----------------
>Modules:
>	TV
>	DVD
>	etc.
>
>Hardware:
>---------
>PC's
>	pundit
>	etc.
>TV-Cards
>	Hauppauge 250/250
>	etc.
>
>This would prevent questions to be posted over and over again to
>the list. And in case of phpBB we would finally have a really
>good searching function!
>
>
>Just my 2 cents
>
>Have a nice X-mas
>  
>

You can already search the mailing list / browse it in a threaded manner 
on the web.  Most people can't be bothered to try and look for an answer 
themselves before posting it to the list.  If there was a web board 
nothing would change you'd STILL get the same questions asked over and over.


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