Why a forum now?

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Submitted by ascii on Fri, 05/11/2018 - 23:54

The old worldofsam site didn't have a forum section - and that was quite deliberate. At the time, the sam-users mailing list was still quite popular and I didn't want to steal its audience.

Now in 2018 the situation has changed a bit. sam-users barely gets any traffic at all, and most discussion happens on a FaceBook groups. However a lot of people don't like using facebook, and content there feels ephemeral like it's there one day and gone tomorrow in a rush of timelines speeding by. It feels like it might be appropriate to try something a bit more searchable and permanent.

We'll see how it goes.

schombi Thu, 07/05/2018 - 06:34

Fully agreed! I always wanted a forum and now we have one - thanks a lot!

On the German ZX forum http://forum.tlienhard.com/phpBB3/index.php there´s also a SAM section, but the German SAM community is fairly small, so I´m hoping for a wider audience here.

I shared the news about the World of SAM reboot and the new forum on the German ZX forum.

drewmunro Thu, 07/05/2018 - 08:37

Fully agree with your comments above regarding Facebook. Good to see the new look site and forum. 

schombi Thu, 07/12/2018 - 07:19

On the German forum some ideas came up, such as checkboxes for the software titles:

[] Mouse compatible

[] Trinity compatible

etc.

Maybe this is something to be considered.

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Mr.Blinky Sat, 11/13/2021 - 21:12

I noticed a couple of times that the 'time ago' a post in the forum was made is displayed (sometimes) incorrectly. A post made yesterday looks like it's less than 12 hours old atm.

Feature request: can we have an upload button to add images to forum posts?