Dave H wrote:
> FWIW, Christian Hewitt sent me some private messages on Discord. I asked him to move the discussion to email since I don't like Discord but he hasn't responded since. I'm not posting what he sent, since he sent it privately, but I'd urge him to post it here.
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> In my experience email and simple forums work well, and being asynchronous is an essential feature. I'm with Jonas. Open source and open discussion is what we signed up for. Sure there are some things that need to be sent in private - keys, passwords etc, but there's no reason for most things to be hidden.
In an open forum setting going to a separate platform to continue a discussion is disrespectful to the members. It’s generally indicative of how the hierarchy view its membership. The same hierarchy who are hung up on badges and titles. It’s actually gets tiring and irritating after a while.
If you want to retain the members interest in this forum you’ll do everything you can to promote healthy discussion in an open and transparent way. No need for behind closed doors discussion to make your point.
The new look forum will stand or fall on this basic concept. While I do accept that the TVH project was on life support it’s important that current participants are not scared off contributing for fear that their contributions are somehow less than worthy for consideration.
