I'm aiming for communities with relatively advanced support software instead of blogs/sites from individuals. -MattH
(Grex & M-Net)
- Are these websites or still BBSes? MattH
- They both have web interfaces, I believe. I haven't used either in a while, though. But then, even if they are (just?) bbses, that doesn't make them _not_ part of Online Ann Arbor. There's more to online than the web, young grasshopper. -Murph.
(Forums)
- It seems like we don't have any forum-type site. There's craigslist, but 90% of that is out-of-town ads for cheap websites. MLive has some too, but they're crummy and mostly inhabited by trolls.
- What makes a good forum type site? Could livejournal's Ann Arbor Ypsi, Ann Arbor Area, and UM Students communities be counted as serving part of this need? What about Michigan Indymedia? I know there's some interest in a counterpart to ArborUpdate that's not controlled by "an elite few bloggers". Though these folks haven't exactly taken advantage of ArborSpeech, etc. -Murph.
- I suppose I'm considering a centralized site where anyone can freely make a topic that supports reply notifications and (to some extent) threaded conversations. Which a wiki can do, but certainly not to the amount that relatively polished/dedicated forum software does. -MattH
- What makes a good forum type site? Could livejournal's Ann Arbor Ypsi, Ann Arbor Area, and UM Students communities be counted as serving part of this need? What about Michigan Indymedia? I know there's some interest in a counterpart to ArborUpdate that's not controlled by "an elite few bloggers". Though these folks haven't exactly taken advantage of ArborSpeech, etc. -Murph.