Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

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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.

I really hope not.

Discourse web interface is bloated and painful to work with.

> As I had previously mentioned, Discourse allows for RSS feeds and
> email notifications.  It also has a mailing list mode.
> 
> It really is a much better solution.  

It isn't, even in mailing mode discourse sends HTML messages which
makes email responses almost impossible and force you to use the
bloated web interface.

-- 
David
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