On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:05 AM Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Required disclosure: Mailman dev, and my sympathies are with the list
advocates for this channel both for that reason, and for more
objective ones. I don't really argue against a move to Discourse
here, but I do know a bit about the problem space, and I'd like to
discuss *some* aspects here. I expect it's clear which I prefer, but
there are a lot of arguments "for" that I don't deal with.
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes:
>>>>> Gerald B. Cox writes:
> > Regardless, as I mentioned above, if they have a bug, then it
> > should be reported for them to address.
>
> I wouldn't call it a bug, just bad UX for a minority(?) target
> audience.
I'm pretty sure the Discourse developers would concede that bad UX for
email users is undesirable. I'm *not* sure they would concede that
it's bad UX. We know how to render HTML to plain text, to RTF, and so
on; Discourse deliberately chose not to do so, but rather chose a
format of their own or perhaps some existing format (this is the first
I've heard of BBcode, so I can't judge).
Thus, I doubt that reporting an issue against Discourse's email
functionality would get action any time soon from the developers, and
might get a lot of pushback.
Thanks very much for your detailed reply. You summed it up pretty well. As far as
the mailing list issue for some email clients I did find this over on the Discourse support forum:
Again, I'm far from being an email expert... I'm just a user of it - but people who do have
the knowledge might want to take a look and see if this discussion reflects some of their concerns
and possibly participate. I don't know if the situation could or could not be improved... but it doesn't
hurt to ask.
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