On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:41:39PM -0800, miker169@... wrote:

> Hello, firstly I would like to put into context my next few paragraphs. I am a huge fan of Firebird and sincerely appreciate the unbelievable work of the people behind it and all its related projects.
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> With regard to the points made above / below or wherever they may appear in this user interface!! I too find the Yahoo mailing list interface horrible. Helen always asks us not to top post, but you have to jump through hoops with Yahoo to include a quote and get your own text underneath it.
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> Also to post this message I had to sign into Yahoo (which I only do once in a blue moon) and of course had forgotten my password which entailed three further attempts to enter a new one which must never have been used before guaranteeing that I will forget it next time!!

It was a very simple interface to mailing list at the beginning but now
is harder to use , I mentioned that we creaed a mirror on gmane and it
looks a lot more human readable

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> I am far from young and hip, but forums are just so much better. I am a big fan of wxWidgets and their forum is excellent see http://forums.wxwidgets.org/.

Well phpbb 3.0.x works out of the box on firebird so it can be easy to
setup
http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2008/06/installing-phpbb3-on-firebird-and.html

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> Apart from that I am more than happy with the 2/3 year release cycle of Firebird because what I need from a database is *stability*. That said I am eagerly awaiting the new security features and C++ API in 3.0.

you can start testing it and blog about it or you can simply send
feedback :)

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> I think we have a lot to be excited about with the integration of FB and LibreOffice but they have missed and opportunity by not allowing connections to a FB server.

It is not done yet can can be easily done (surfaced) the core is all
done only it needs to be added in the interface

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/56064

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> The other thing that I think would get more users excited is something like MySQL Workbench. I know we have FlameRobin but IMHO is Workbench significantly better (sorry).

Flamerobin is created in our free time , and if you want to you can join
in :)

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> Once again please do not take these comments as criticisms, I really, really appreciate all your hard work :)
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> Mike

I think we need a lot more buzz from the community so feedback is really need