On Wednesday, August 21, 2019 7:32:06 AM MST you wrote: > [quote="JohnMH, post:4, topic:2184, full:true"] > If you’re deadset on using a Discorse subforum where nobody will find you, > would you consider bridging it to a mailing list? > [/quote] > > Without data or metrics about mailing list usage, it is difficult to assert > that Discourse is hard to discover. We do have some data on Discourse page > view metrics, with about ~2000 views each day and better discoverability in > search engines: >  > [quote="lbalhar, post:5, topic:2184"] > Do you think that a mailing list is more visible? Joining a mailing list > means that you already know that a mailing list (or a group) exists and you > have to intentionaly find its address and join it. Here, I can imagine that > somebody will just spot some of our discussion and join it or at least will > know that we are here in case they’d need us. > Do you think I am wrong and having a subcategory here is not a good idea? > [/quote] > > @lbalhar The platform should make sense for your audience. Whether platform > X or platform Y makes your discussion more visible depends on who is in > your community and who you are trying to reach out to. Personally I think > the improved search engine optimization of Discourse makes it easier for > new people to discover conversations in Google/DuckDuckGo/et al, but this > is only one factor. > It is also worth noting Fedora Infrastructure no longer supports mailing > lists: > https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/application-service-categories-and-c > ommunity-handoff/ RE: No longer supporting mailing lists: This project literally cannot function without mailing lists. We do not currently have a viable alternative. See all of the issues we've had trying to work with Mailing List mode on Discourse. It is not a complete feature, so we (at least I) cannot recommend switching to it at this time. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
