Wow, thanks everyone!
Lazur, I'm not entirely sure why you are concerned about these things. I suppose, having a 2nd English speaking Inkscape forum implies some kind of competition, just because there are 2 -- they have some differences, and some might prefer 1 or the other. But like you said, I don't know why there can't be both. Just because someone is a member here, doesn't mean they can't be a member there (and vice versa).
There are other Inkscape forums now, already -- 1 in Italian and 1 in German. And there have been, in the past....I believe Swedish, or maybe Dutch, or something from that area of the world. And I think there was a Brazilian forum, in the past. And there have been other English speaking Inskcape forums -- one called Learning Digital Design (which is closed now), which had tutorials for a few open source graphics apps (and a forum), and Syllie had a forum at
Very Simple Designs for a while, as well. I think both closed because they became too much work for their creators.
Lazur URH wrote:...from which 37 people have their most active forum "Help with using Inkscape". That is far the most popular section here, and most of that forum related topics are made by inkscape beginners.
I've seen several requests for more specific boards here, some made by me, some by others.
Anyway, I do not wish to divide the community. Countless examples can be made, of just graphics programs alone (and for another example, the internet security community) for which there are
many different forums. (I haven't looked in a while, but a few years ago, there were 4 or 5 GIMP forums, for example.) (And I couldn't begin to guess how many there are for Adobe Illustrator!) Many of them share, not only regular members, but share moderators and even admins! They work together to offer support for whatever program or issue. Having more than 1 forum does not have to divide a community, and in this case, I don't see why it would or should. Instead, I think it might enrich the Inkscape community in general, to have more than 1 forum.
Up until recently, when I suddenly realized that I could no longer effectively moderate this forum alone, without support (at least not without some advanced permissions) I was planning to keep on moderating here, and open my site too, at the same time. Why can't we have common members? If I had thought micro had any extra time, I would have asked him to co-admin with me. I do not wish to be competitive and I do not think having a 2nd forum will divide the community.
Lazur URH wrote:Thus I was wondering, what are Brynn's views on these things,
as what are the differences that would separate and complete eachother,
and what would prevent from competing?
It would go against my wishes not to be competitive, were I to point out all the differences. Anyone is welcome to visit the site. Again, it is NOT my intention to divide the community. And not only do I think it will not divide the community, I don't really think it's possible....not as long as it's my site, because again, that's not what I want. If I thought having a 2nd forum would divide the community, I would not have built it! I think it will enrich the community!
Have I missed your point?Edit
Oops!
When you said "what are the differences that would separate and
complete each other" at first I thought you said
compete. So I apologize for that!
Well, I think the centralized source of good tutorials is something missing here, as well as the opportunity for people to write tutorials which would not just be linked, but reside there. That's unique on the internet, as far as Inkscape, as far as I can tell. (I've seen quite a few sites that simply display tutorials written by others.) This may just be my personal preference, but not being in a blog format, which most tutorial sites seem to be, might make it easier to find them. (Note that I hope to add a tag/word cloud navigation for my Inkscape Tutorials page, as soon as I can figure out how, lol. It's a bit beyond me, at the moment.) So the tutorials complement this forum. I will be adding a gallery soon. While this site has the 2 forums for displaying images, a gallery is a different way of displaying them, which some may prefer. So the gallery will be a complement too.
What prevents from competing? Well, like I said, that's not my intention. I will not encourage it, and I will not allow competitive statements about the 2 forums, by members. I don't know what else you might mean. Honestly, at first I was planning just the content that you see on the Home tab (the tutorials) -- just a simple webpage. But I was becoming more and more concerned about microUgly's absense and lack of communication. I half expected to log on here one day, and the forum would just be gone. So I thought I'd add a forum, just in case. And once I had the forum installed, well, of course I had to customize it
What would you expect from a wanna be artist
Anyway, I've never seen multiple forums offering support for a program or issue, divide a community, unless there is already a division within a community. And I just don't see that there is such a division here (unless something's happened since I've been gone). I stopped moderating because I felt that I could not be effective, moderating alone without support, without some advanced permissions. My site was in the works, and well underway, long before I realized that, and stopped moderating here recently. Note the date I started this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=12530.
So, I don't know. I hope I've answered your questions. But I don't clearly understand your concern. I hope you'll visit, and I hope you'll want to register. But of course you have free will, and I won't feel badly if you don't. But I don't think you need to be concerned about dividing the community. People can participate in 1, 2, 3 or many forums, if they choose to.
All best
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