On 23Oct2022 16:50, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2) In some ways many of us consider the Discourse platform to be
significantly inferior to a mailing list. It does offer a mailing list
interface but in several respects it is inadequate. I refer you to this
post which goes into some detail:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-October/msg00276.html
With respect to this item in that post:
No or broken threading on emails. This one is so annoying. Doesn't
any of the people who use Discourse use threading anywhere.
Context is everything.
This is fixed in current Discourse, and the the Python discussions are
running the fixed version. The Discourse devs were _very_ welcoming and
responsive once the problem was well described and the required semantic
fixes specified. Maybe the RedHat instance would benefit from updating
the version.
As a long time antiwebforum email first person, I'm pretty happy with
Discourse.
I do use mailing list mode for most Discourse forums and work almost
entirely through the email interface. Happily.
Discourse brings some advantages:
- email to email users and forum for forum users (many of the young
things these days)
- an app (whose primary benefit to me is reply notifications)
- the web interface also does notifications
- uses and renders Markdown for the text - this IMO is a BIG step up
from normal email (I've little use for HTML email and plain text email
_is_ a little less expressive than Markdown, which is as easy to type
as plain text anyway)
These days I'm a big +1 for Discourse. From being a big -1.
It does have some issues, and I hope to discuss some of them with the
devs.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
_______________________________________________
users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
