by Neotrope » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:25 pm
Another vote for the public forum.
I think any "extreme" users can easily setup a private forum elsewhere to discuss such minutae as what CPU/mobo/processor/RAM etc mighrt be on the system, how to swap out the case guts into the new case (yeah, I'm one of those folks who said YES, I want to buy both case colors for one keyboard, but that was - ahem - sooo long ago, not sure John is still going to do that option), or any "hacking" the system stuff.
On the other hand, John will likely need to create some kind of user area for "registered" owners, if there would be any place to trade/share wav files, or for large OS downloads, etc. (Access used to have theirs "open" but they now require password.) - Keeps people from killing the server when real users need to get stuff, versus the scraping systems on the net which connect to any file on the site to grab it. But this would probably be more to conserve resources on the system, verus any private info about the product, tips/tricks, or how to get the Forat guy to paint the thing bright red for you.
So, my vote is everything public for the good of the product, especially when it hits retail.
But, possibly a secure "download" area, or part of forum which requires verification of the serial number to post/access (Open Labs has this for their "tech support" section, which is actually dumb since they never post any solutions there, just tell you to call them....).
(I went on there a bit longer than I intended ... sorry!)
Another vote for the public forum.
I think any "extreme" users can easily setup a private forum elsewhere to discuss such minutae as what CPU/mobo/processor/RAM etc mighrt be on the system, how to swap out the case guts into the new case (yeah, I'm one of those folks who said YES, I want to buy both case colors for one keyboard, but that was - ahem - sooo long ago, not sure John is still going to do that option), or any "hacking" the system stuff.
On the other hand, John will likely need to create some kind of user area for "registered" owners, if there would be any place to trade/share wav files, or for large OS downloads, etc. (Access used to have theirs "open" but they now require password.) - Keeps people from killing the server when real users need to get stuff, versus the scraping systems on the net which connect to any file on the site to grab it. But this would probably be more to conserve resources on the system, verus any private info about the product, tips/tricks, or how to get the Forat guy to paint the thing bright red for you.
So, my vote is everything public for the good of the product, especially when it hits retail.
But, possibly a secure "download" area, or part of forum which requires verification of the serial number to post/access (Open Labs has this for their "tech support" section, which is actually dumb since they never post any solutions there, just tell you to call them....).
(I went on there a bit longer than I intended ... sorry!)