calling the system idiotic , you basically say that the people behind this are idiots. Problem is that you have not much proof to provide any basis for your arguments and thats plain rude. World.st forums works, I have used it a lot, before realising that mail was just more convenient for me. First of all when I was using it , I did get an email, this is one of the reason I stopped using it because I got an email for a reply on forum and another by the mailing list. In order to subscribe to a thread you have to actually reply on it , maybe there is also a subscription option I do not remember, but all this is very standard forum practice. If a message from the mailing list does not appear in the forum it may because in some cases the mailing list withholds the message because it considers it a spam and it awaits approval by the mailing list moderators. Threads are like on the mailing list based on the title of the email, usually we do take care to keep the titles consistent , when a discussion forks the title changes slightly and the forums displays it as separate thread. However sometimes people do not respect the titles and that can create a mess but this is not the forum's fault. "I just ask myself: Why are Smalltalk people with the "best" IDE of all using such a crappy system!?" I never heard or read any pharoer to refer to Pharo as the best IDE. Maybe you read it somewhere else, but this is not a popular claim here and frankly its a silly claim when the problems of Pharo are well known and documented. Plus what is the best IDE will be based on personal taste, my opinion is that by very very very far the best IDE is Delphi. But I never liked the language (Object Pascal) as much as I like Pharo. Lazarus people have done an amazing job in making a open source fork of it. Now: Hunt me, shout at me, call me whatever you want! That's fine by me. It
would be the normal reaction of a crowd if a new sheep dares to criticise what the crowd has been doing for long. I don't care!
I have criticised Pharo , many , many times. Pharo devs are not shy to offer their opinion and we had plenty of heated discussions. We do manage however to keep this polite and civilised most of the time. I would hunt you but I don't like sheep meat, its too fat for my taste. Keep criticising but please keep the name calling to a minimum , Pharo like the vast majority of open source software depends on the good will of its contributors and we try to keep them around and tempt new ones by making the community polite and civilised. Also I should have started with this in the first place, this mailing list is strictly for the improvement , bug fixing of Pharo and World.st is not part of it.