On Wednesday, August 21, 2019 4:34:01 PM MST John Harris wrote: > 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 > > -community-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. Well, this is a great example of how bad the Discourse gateway is. It wasn't intended as such. If emails start showing up over there from other users as me, this is why. -- 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
