On Monday, August 26, 2019 5:27:53 AM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > It seems that the only thing in that link that has merit in regards to > > this list is that discourse allow editing of messages that has been > > sent. > > > > As for the other things I disagree with pretty much everything. I don't > > think email is too hard to use, I don't think large mailinglists are a > > problem, I don't see any spam here, I don't think linking to things in > > emails is hard etc. > > Discourse has many uses but it pushes people toward a single interface > > where as mailinglists let's people be much more free to choose their own > > interfaces. And yes, discourse can email me when things happen, the > > formatting of mail does make following the conversation much harder than > > a simple maillinglist. > > I also thought this was discussed earlier this year and that the > > conclusion was that discourse was a bad fit. > > > > > I received an email from Fedora Discourse earlier this week and it looked > fine. I was able to reply directly or press a button which opened up the > web interface. Are there differences that I didn't notice? Probably... > would most people notice them... probably not. > As far as you not considering the other advantages listed as meaningful, > that's your opinion and you're welcome to it. I simply disagree. > As far as discourse being a bad fit, I also disagree. Whenever change > happens some people are always resistant... but to make progress change is > required and legacy items are sometimes impacted.... some examples are KDE > 3 to 4 to 5 - GNOME 2.3 to 3... Python 2.7 to 3... the list goes on. Higher number does not inherently mean better. In this case, it's not even comparable. Discourse is not Email 2.0. Email is still email. Which reminds me, another issue with Fedora's Discourse: In emails, you can rarely figure out who people actually are because it often shows just a first name, and many of us, myself included, have fairly common first names. All messages show as being "From" Discourse. The web UI is not better, in this case. -- 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
