So does this come down to a cultural issue?Ivan Denisov wrote: I am not such sure. I am also the part of the community and I need forum. I know many people who prefer to use forums.
It appears to me that the majority of the English speakers using [BlackBox] want email and don't like forums
(Wojtek Skulski, Stan Warford, Rene Krywult, Robert Campbell, Bernhard Tweutwein, Bob Walkden, Doug Danforth,..).
Whereas you seem to be saying that without the Russian forum you would not have learned of or us used
BlackBox.
I can understand that but I don't want to force the English community to use a forum.
I have used email since 1972 as a graduate student at Stanford University which was one of the first sites on the ARPANET. I have vast collections of emails saved and archived.
I currently have about 200 folders in my Mozilla Thunderbird for email storage. Many of the folders have sub folders. I do everything by email.
The only forums that I use are BlackBoxFramework and TheEEStory (about supercapacitors). I certainly would not force my family (brother, sister, son, daughter) to communicate with me using a forum. That would just be ridiculous.
So if you need a forum then fine.
Please don't force others to use it.
-Doug