> On 30 Nov 2022, at 11:13, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 09:47 +0000, Barry Scott wrote: >>> I don't do social media. I won't start now. I refuse to be the >>> product >>> on a private platform. >> >> Its not social media. Its discourse that is open source. >> >> Python and fedora already have discourse servers up and working. >> >> discuss.python.org and https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ >> >> Personally I find them easy to use and better then email mainly >> because i can use markup to format code and other text. > > That's your choice of course. And certainly markup can be useful in > some contexts, but good MUAs do support it as well, either as HTML > (frowned upon here of course) or as Markdown (which Evolution now > supports). > > I don't dispute that Discourse is free software. I do question its > usefulness as a *replacement* for mailing lists. It does have a > mailing-list mode, which in my limited experience is genuinely > terrible, to the extent that I find I have to open a browser to read > its messages in context. When python made the move I was also curious about how well it would work out. I've had email for since the beginning of time (well epoch+10 years atleast) and use it all the time. There was as lot of discussion on the mailing lists before the move about it being a poor replacement for email, as here. I hear that the email issues are being worked on, but I did not bother with getting it to email me stuff. I find the New and Unread tracking the discourse does is good enough that I can keep up to date and follow threads I'm contributing to. Barry > > There are other things I could say about it, but I'm afraid I've > dragged this thread rather off-topic. > > poc > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
