stan wrote: > I'm wondering how the people who regularly use > fedora-users mailing list feel about that. Which would > you prefer? Forums have never been something I care for. Anything which forces its choice of interface upon me is something I don't use joyfully. But that said, I don't see any reason why there could not be a users forum and an email list co-existing. Clearly, some people prefer forums while other prefer email. Helping users of Fedora in whatever format they prefer seems reasonable. Both IRC and the mailing list happily co-exist today. Some folks are in one or the other, some spend time in both. A user-support forum would be similar. If that makes support available to people who aren't well-served by IRC or mailing lists, it's probably a good thing. The only reason it would be an either/or choice is if a global decision was made to drop support for the Fedora Mailman instance in favor of a Discourse instance. That doesn't seem likely for the near future, at this point. > Unfortunately, it's an either / or proposal, because there > is no interface in Discourse for emails from an email list > to be put in their forums, though they do have email > notification for new web messages. Based on what I read as I followed the devel list thread, there is a mailing-list mode in Discourse. It's got a number of issues at this point, but there is some attempt by the Discourse folks to allow interacting with the forum via email. I still would be unlikely to use it because forums are simply a different type of conversation. In my experience, forums discourage quoting and lead to conversations that remind me of mailing lists with no standards. They're like being on lists where everyone top-posts. (I generally avoid helping people who repeatedly top-post here. There are folks who continue to do so after being asked numerous times to respect the list customs.) > Would you willingly or reluctantly migrate to the new > platform? If this list were replaced with a forum, I'd simply free up the time I spend here doing other things. I have no interest in using a forum and spending more time in some browser-based interface. -- Todd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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