[FFML] The mailing list active!!!!!! shocking....

[Eimii]

While we run the risk of making perfect the enemy of the good here, i'd
suggested something like Spacebattles/Sufficient Velocity/etc. more as a
"casual interaction" forum run parallel to the current mailing list format.
Authors seeking detailed, line-by-line critique on stories and readers
willing to provide and participate in said critique could sub and post to
the list, while a forum thread could be maintained for less formal
interactions. Stories and critique could probably still be posted there,
but there would be no expectation of line-by-line proofreading. A more
accessible format like that might also be a way to attract more people
willing to participate in proofreading fanfic.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 9:17 PM The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 2018-10-17 at 19:40, the DragonBard wrote:
>
> >> 1) It would need to support a line-by-line response to a story, in
> >> a way that's reasonably convenient. The web forum interface used
> >> by fanfiction.net (among other sites) fails this test. That site is
> >> made to facilitate "Woooo! That was great!" comments, not detailed
> >> analysis.
> >
> > The software that's being used by Spacebattles and Sufficient
> > Velocity have something that seems to allow this. You can selectively
> > reply or quote from a few lines up to the entire thing if you want.
> >
> > Not sure that's  along the lines of what you're suggesting
>
> Those sites do have the major downside that their threading is
> completely flat; to the best of my awareness (as a passive reader of
> multiple such sites, having refrained from signing up for an account on
> any of them for various reasons), there's no possibility of having
> replies appear properly nested underneath the message to which they are
> replying.
>
> One of the great advantages of E-mail (and of Usenet, for that matter)
> is the ability of the recipients to use software which fits their own
> preferences with respect to things like that, to an extent which no Web
> forum ever has been or - given the way the Web is increasingly more and
> more about presentation and formatting - ever will be able to equal.
>
> --
>    The Wanderer
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw
>
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