Server forum

[buckesfeld]

On 07/19/2008 deano ferrari wrote:
> However, I think the scope would need to be carefully defined,

Suggestions? I try to imagine a delimiter, but I always end up with more confusion where to post things.

Uwe

[ken_yap]

You'll never get a clear boundary in every case. If somebody has a PHP problem, it may not be clear whether they configured Apache wrong (server problem), didn't set up the network right (networking problem), wrote the test script wrong (programming problem), or didn't know how to configure PHP (application problem). And the topic may cross boundaries as points are raised.

But I do think there should be a server oriented forum. Some of the questions asked are a poor fit in applications (how to I set up up a ftp server, how do I do virtual hosts, how do I do load balancing, how do I set up my own nameserver). Only by taking the meaning of applications broadly can one fit those questions there. I think that if one can answer yes to these two questions: 1. will people recognise most of the time when a question should go into this forum and 2. will it make it easier for people to find topics, then the forum deserves to exist.

[kastorff]

We're never gonna come up with a organizational plan that suits everyone. The problem with a server forum is that it blurs the organizational plan already in place. It's not whether or not a server forum would suit some situations...it clearly would. It's about whether a server forum would suit a large number of situations, and it doesn't. We're trying to balance having the forums structure be simple enough to maintain, but discrete enough to be useful. It's like standing on a razor blade. Whatever we do is gonna hurt some dynamic in favor of another. We have members using both NNTP clients and web clients, and additional complexity favors neither when one looks carefully at what's gonna work best for a mixed environment.