Re: Nabble Passwords

Posted by GregChapman on Sep 26, 2013; 9:53am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Nabble-Passwords-tp7586707p7586765.html

Coleen_Astalos wrote

Since 70% of my members never even post (just lurk), I may change the permissions to let anyone view the forum (embedded on my password protected site) and just require registration if they want to post (or subscribe via email).

That is exactly the approach I would recommend.

I could be interesting to see how many of my die hard emailers convert to viewing the forum online instead (especially with it being embedded and them not having to go to another site to view).

I was with "OneList" before it was bought by "eGroups" which then sold out to "YahooGroups" and I am a dedicated emailer - the co-ordinator of the team that publish nPOPuk, an open source plain text email program originally developed in Japan for WinCE platform but now available on just about any Windows-based system.

It took me a long time to recognise that more and more people only know the web and write all their mail in whatever browser is installed on their hardware they are sitting in front of or in is their lap or hand - gone are the days when 90% of people used "Outlook Express". I strongly suspect that many of your dedicated emailers will gravitate to the Nabble's web interface, as unlike Yahoo's ponderous and advert saturated screens, it is delivered promptly through a relatively plain interface - and has an effective search system for finding old posts. I recall Yahoo's got broken a long time ago. :-(