Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

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On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 at 19:35, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 13:31 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 07:12 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > That's why the general trend is *away* from email.
> > > > 
> > > > The Foreman community recently switched away from mailing lists in this
> > > 
> > > way,
> > > > and
> > > 
> > > https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html
> > > > is really interesting and helpful read on the topic for those who might
> > > 
> > > have
> > > > some ... trepidation.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sayin' we are ready to shut this list down, but it's honestly
> > > 
> > > worth
> > > > considering if a different approach will be more effective.
> > > 
> > > Before the daggers come out.... please take some time to checkout Fedora
> > > Discourse
> > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/  and read the Foreman community link
> > > above.
> > > 
> > > As I had previously mentioned, Discourse allows for RSS feeds and email
> > > notifications.  It also has a mailing list mode.
> > 
> > From the foreman post, in the comments:
> >     Email interface does not really work, there should be rather called
> >     “notifications”. You must visit the site eventually.
> > 
> > I personally find this a fatal flaw, I do not have time to waste
> > visiting slow websites for each project I follow. If I have to switch
> > away from my mail client I just end up unfollowing the project unless I
> > am focusing specifically on it at that time.
> > 
> > > It really is a much better solution.
> > 
> > Better for whom and for what purpose ?
> > 
> > I am sure it won't be better for me, all "web forums" I ever used made
> > for my disappearence from the platform as it was too expensive (time-
> > wise) for me to keep up.
> 
> Ah nice side-thing I just found out, discussion.fedoraproject.org does
> not show *anything* unless I let my browser access this website
> http://discourse-cdn-sjc1.com
> 
> That doesn't feel right.

It kind of works with JavaScript not allowed from both
discussion.fedoraproject.org and discourse-cdn-sjc1.com, but if you
allow JS from discussion.fedoraproject.org only, it just shows you a
blank page.

And I agree, too much clicking. Reading e-mail with mutt on a terminal
is so much faster.

Regards,
Dominik
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