[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[Larry F]

There are other aspects too. When I first mentioned that I thought the 
list should have an active web site, it was because when people use 
their favorite search engine to find fiction, mailing lists don't show 
up in the results. I also mentioned that my web site still gets visitors 
even though it hasn't been active in nearly a decade and people still 
sign up for the -- also inactive -- mailing list, which shows the 
potential for getting new visitors and members.

The FFML archive is there, but it isn't attractive at all because it's 
just a rather intimidating list of dates and links that tells nothing 
about its content. If I were a person who had just stumbled across it, I 
sure as heck wouldn't bother trying to sort through it. I'd back out and 
look for something friendlier.


On 6/30/2013 6:29 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> It's rather more about being able to *post* via the Web interface, which
> a plain archive of course can't do. There are a number of technical
> considerations about doing that which would have to be - ah -
> considered, as well as some matters of taste and/or religion which would
> have to be decided, in which latter category formatting / HTML falls.
>
> Other aspects of the discussion included the possibility of better
> outside visibility and discoverability, and (I think, if only by a brief
> mention?) the possibility of revising the rules about what is allowed as
> on-topic, in hopes of broader appeal. But the "dual posting interface"
> and the issues involved with implementing that largely took over the
> thread, and the subsidiary discussion about formatting / HTML largely
> took over from that in turn.
>