Quote from: rthrash at Jun 29, 2007, 11:34 AMThere’s also a very clear need in some circumstances for more private discussions that won’t be indexed for all the world to see, including competitors. If there’s not a semi-private forum there’s likely to be a less open flow of information and ideas in critical situations, which is contradictory to the goals of the pure-online commercial support offering.
A very good point indeed, many times I bounced ideas in the public forums and found shelter behind the fact that most of this stuff was in english and a very few (if any) of my clients would even happen to read it... nevertheless, it would be better to have some privacy for some items
As said before, this does not mean it will not come out / benefit the community at large once things are finalized.
But the difference is :
1) You have the choice of making things public (as stated earlier, in some case you won’t want that)
2) While the "final product" (be it a snippet, module or a best practice / method) is public the process of building it is not (a little bit like the process which goes on internally in the MODx team forums already - which are not public... and nobody got scared about that
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