Reading those suggested mailing list behavior guides that have been going around again have only put me off the Radio discussion group again... but I can't stop reading it and answering. It's a habit, and even the bad threads have a sort of bad-wreck attraction.
Instead I've tried reading the Movable Type support forum, which has kind of worked. It's by web instead of email though, and actually it's been in addition to the Radio group instead of instead of. Even if I got Spycyroll (or something--Spycyroll seems to have fallen victim to SourceForget syndrome) set up so I could quit using Radio entirely, I would probably still read the discussion group. Just because I've used it for two years and have too much experience to share (though it feels like I haven't been putting in as many FAQs as I ought...).
It's funny, actually, because MT is more widely used than Radio, so people are generally less mindful of pre-Septever social norms. So maybe it is just the novelty, or the format. Or that Movable Type doesn't have the prodigious aptitude for intermittent faults Radio does. (I have seen some inexplicable posts in the MT forum, but I feel I should chalk them up to the authors being ignorant of good reporting guidelines.)
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My problem with the MT forum is that MT’s much less the whole thing: I never really did the Radio DG, but with Blogger, all your server (if it wasn’t Blog*Spot) needed to do was accept FTP. With MT, it’s MT, and your server’s Perl install, and your webserver (like the weird problems that turned out to be because IIS makes getting to path_info nearly impossible), so it’s quite often hard to even know where to start.
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That’s true. Out of the box for Radio, you don’t even need FTP (unless things go awry). Will TypePad alleviate that some, you think?
Radio only has problems when it misbehaves, which, from reading the DG, seems like all too often. That or there’s a conceptual mismatch (like what upstreaming is and when it happens). But still, I imagine there are people who don’t even have to look at the DG because it just works.