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Busy days on the Drupal.org forums!

Submitted by Drupalace on Fri, 2008-11-07 17:46

I regularly scan every header that passes through the Drupal.org Post-installation forum, which is a catch-all category for all kinds of Drupal questions related to general site creation. I manage this through the glorious assistance of Google Reader and the forum's RSS feed.

The rate of posting has been growing and growing, and not long ago I thought it'd soon reach 100 posts a day – a rate that'd make it hard to follow, even just skimming headers. Fortunately, it's perhaps leveling off, though there are still dozens of posts a day, even close to 100 on some. 

What I'm looking for in headers is, of course, questions that seem to address my own questions, or that appear to be questions I can answer. On some days, nothing jumps out as interesting. On most days, a good handful of items invite closer reading. And once in a while, dozens of post will command attention at once. Many recent days have been interesting like that.

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