[Massplanners] Time for a different platform for MassPlanners?

[Nathan Chung]

Dear MassPlanners subscribers,
Forgive me if this has been raised already, but I am wondering if it is
time for a different platform for MassPlanners. The current group email
format is visually overwhelming and makes it hard to search past
conversations. For example, at the bottom is the screenshot of the Digest
that arrived in my inbox. It shows 17 different topics, but *it's only 6
distinct topics actually* with multiple replies per topic.

I think for the forum to progress into a more effective forum for sharing
and storing knowledge, moving to a different platform, perhaps a web
bulletin forum, might be necessary. This is a deep IT question, and I only
have surface knowledge of it from my past work experience in a specialized
field of IT. One risk is with so many forum software out there, if you
choose the wrong one, that can cause difficulties. Here's a Wikipedia list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software

The amount of messages and valuable information that is getting buried has
gotten to the point that I wanted to bring this up now rather than later.
Thank you.

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Nathan Chung, Land Use Planner
Office of Planning & Sustainability for the City of Northampton, MA
nchung at northamptonma.gov; (413) 587-1262
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