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chaley · 10-06-2013, 03:50 AM

I certainly have no problem with CC having its own subforum. The choice to do it rests with the powers-that-be. I am not totally comfortable pushing for it because I don't want to get into a position where it appears that we are trying to use MobileRead for advertising. Any choice to move forward must be based on benefit to the MobileRead community, not benefit to CC's developers.

I do wonder a bit about the motivation, because that could influence whether a new subforum is created, and if so where. One motivation could be that the traffic level is sufficient that people are finding the posts crowding out other posts of greater interest to them. Another could be that there is sufficient interest in CC to justify concentrating the information into its own collection to make it easier to find. Both could be true.

Another issue: there are other reader app/device integration projects out there. I am thinking of griker's work with iOS apps, and in particular marvin. Recently the authors of Readmill expressed some interest in calibre integration. FBReader, Moon+, and others already integrate (to greater or lesser extent) with calibre's content server. It might be that the best approach is a subforum dedicated to smartphone/tablet integration, named something appropriate. However, it raises two questions: how would this differ from the existing devices subforum, and would it satisfy the "concentrated information" motivation?

Given that CC is joined to calibre's hip, I do think that any new subforum should go under calibre. My concern is discoverability. If a person has trouble finding the forum then the forum is useless to him or her. I don't have a good idea how this should play out.

Final note: we have started a project to move CC's FAQ to MultiPie's website. We have received a lot of feedback telling us that new customers go there first looking for information, and apparently many don't take the second step going from MultiPie's site to MobileRead. Instead they send us email, something we would rather avoid especially since in the vast majority of the cases the question is in the FAQ. We will not add a discussion board to MultiPie's site, instead continuing to use MobileRead for as long as we can.

10-06-2013, 03:50 AM	#3
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,459 Karma: 8025600 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	I certainly have no problem with CC having its own subforum. The choice to do it rests with the powers-that-be. I am not totally comfortable pushing for it because I don't want to get into a position where it appears that we are trying to use MobileRead for advertising. Any choice to move forward must be based on benefit to the MobileRead community, not benefit to CC's developers. I do wonder a bit about the motivation, because that could influence whether a new subforum is created, and if so where. One motivation could be that the traffic level is sufficient that people are finding the posts crowding out other posts of greater interest to them. Another could be that there is sufficient interest in CC to justify concentrating the information into its own collection to make it easier to find. Both could be true. Another issue: there are other reader app/device integration projects out there. I am thinking of griker's work with iOS apps, and in particular marvin. Recently the authors of Readmill expressed some interest in calibre integration. FBReader, Moon+, and others already integrate (to greater or lesser extent) with calibre's content server. It might be that the best approach is a subforum dedicated to smartphone/tablet integration, named something appropriate. However, it raises two questions: how would this differ from the existing devices subforum, and would it satisfy the "concentrated information" motivation? Given that CC is joined to calibre's hip, I do think that any new subforum should go under calibre. My concern is discoverability. If a person has trouble finding the forum then the forum is useless to him or her. I don't have a good idea how this should play out. Final note: we have started a project to move CC's FAQ to MultiPie's website. We have received a lot of feedback telling us that new customers go there first looking for information, and apparently many don't take the second step going from MultiPie's site to MobileRead. Instead they send us email, something we would rather avoid especially since in the vast majority of the cases the question is in the FAQ. We will not add a discussion board to MultiPie's site, instead continuing to use MobileRead for as long as we can.