Discourse is a Forum and not Social media On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:47 AM Barry Scott <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 30 Nov 2022, at 01:03, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 5:33 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 06:38 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > Well, so much for the notion that web forums are better at stopping > spam than mailing lists... > > I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now. > > > Reported it. > > While we're on the topic: all the GNOME mailing lists are moving to > Discourse (similar to HyperKitty but much *much* worse). The ostensible > reasons for this included "better control of spam" and "Mailman depends > on Python 2", the latter being clearly nonsense as the Fedora lists run > on Mailman3 - which is why we have this HyperKitty crock in the first > place. (Note that GNOME hosting is provided by Red Hat, so go figure.) > > The Evolution list has already been replaced, and as many of us have > decided that this is not a usable substitute we set up an alternative > list at: > > https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-users > > If there is any danger of this nonsense happening to the Fedora lists, > I hope we get sufficient notice (GNOME originally gave us only 10 days > warning, though they later extended it) to allow for alternatives to be > discussed. > > > This email is so depressing. It saddens me to think there may not be a > mailing list anymore. > > 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. > > Barry > > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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