On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 12:20:14PM -0600, Peter Reed wrote: > > Hello, > > Short answer: no. > > Longer answer: > I have been using the Fedora mailing lists since Fedora Core 2. I have > spent time setting up mail programs to sort all incoming email lists > into nice, neat categories that are easy to read through. They don't > need a damn browser that has become a bloated catchall do-all tool for > everything under the sun. > Nothing is stored locally with Discourse so, > you have to be online to do everything. I can't read anything on > Discourse offline at my leisure. The confused, incongruous threads are > difficult to read without having to scroll up and down constantly. With > a mailing list, everything that is pertinent is right there before you > to peruse easily and quickly. Totally agree, also think about needing to scroll left and right on wide messages. Most forums are bloated with avatars and useless information about the author of a post. And what about the signaturesm often with useless advertisements or 'nice' images. (and off coarse the adds added by the forum software intself.) The information density on forum pages is usually quite low.... -Marcel _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
