Approximately one week ago Revelation Software was informed by CompuServe that The Revelation Forum on the service is not meeting minimum usage requirements as established in our contract with them in 1992. The decrease in usage of this forum is clearly a result of the wide variety of free forums on the world wide web, including our own at www.revelation.com. We are very proud of our forum, the level of participation, and the quality of the exchange among members of our community. We are committed to continuous improvement of this site and, as a consequence, we have decided against continued investment in the CompuServe forum. Revelation has discussed with CompuServe possible alternatives to complete elimination of the forum, and CompuServe has promised to respond with some ideas. We do, however, believe that any effort put into the CompuServe forum at this point will have rapidly diminishing returns. We would like to thank all of the members of the Revelation community, and our past and present employees for making the CompuServe forum such a successful and useful resource. We trust that www.revelation.com will continue to meet and exceed your needs. We welcome your feedback on this issue; please let us know your views via the Online Discussion at www.revelation.com, or via email at [email protected].

Will the librarys of code be brought into RTI's web site?

It would be a shame to lose them

Perhaps you could add an "Outland" section to the www.revelation.com server . I think this website needs the likes of the inimitable DH and BE to liven this place up. You could pay them, say $50000 p.a. to participate here as Outland sysops.

Suggestions Dept:

You might set up an ftp server area to enable the Compuserve library functions and contents to be replicated.

There needs to be a special quarantined and heavily passworded section for Cameron Purdy's AREV games.

Also, perhaps an archive of the serious messages from Compuserve could be placed at the website here. Even in their raw HTML form, they might be of use to others.

]] We trust that www.revelation.com will continue to meet and exceed your needs.«

If anybody from RevTch has read anything off the compuserver forum lately, how can you even attempt to suggest that this www forum meets needs, let alone exceeds them. As a discussion medium, the WWW is PATHETIC compared to Compuserve forums. Can't this forum be hosted on Compuserve? giving the advantages of Compuserve to those who know how good it is, and the accessibility to those who don't subscribe to that excelent service.

J

After my initial knee-jerk reaction: Here are a couple of questions:

The major problem of this WWW discussion forum is not easily seeing what you have not read, especially if you are on the road some of the time. As this is a Notes based Web site, is it possible to replicate the discussion forums, Notes to Notes?

Will there be any development effort put in to incorporate features now lost with the demise of the Compuserve forum?

J

I echo others comments about ease of use.

The *only* reason I still have a Compuserve Account is to access the Revelation Forum. I will not miss it as I rarely check it.

I think the best returns you will get is improve the views on this discussion page(s).

G'day Jonathan,

Can you please e-mail me your contact details (eg phone/fax/mail address).

Thanks

David Goddard

[email protected]

Revelation Representative for Australia and New Zealand

The alternatives on CompuServe will no doubt to merge into a multi-vendor forum. There is a way to access CompuServe forums via a web browser (I think you still need to be a CompuServe member though). QuarterDeck's forum was set up like this before they shut it down, due mainly to QuarterDeck's financial woes.

Other alternatives is for Revelation Tech to setup a private news server as well as an FTP site for the libraries. An advanced news reader like Forte Agent or Gravity has most of the same functions as TapCIS (+ add-ons).

Why not host conferences on CompuServe, every one or two months? JRev and future directions of Revelation Technologies are hot topics. Kurt Baker could have Q&A sessions. This would increase the usage of the CompuServe forum.

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