12-11-2021, 05:49 AM
(12-03-2021, 05:01 PM)jasonriedy Wrote: Email works quite well across many platforms. Archives are wonderfully searchable via web goo or my own stuff. IIRC, the latest mailman has a full forum-like interface. I'm sure someone else could come up with a discourse-like interface.
I personally like e-mail as well, but mailing lists have major issues. They're often misconfigured, out-of-date (buggy) or even mangle peoples e-mails. Some of these misconfigurations end up with violating security protocols like DKIM and DMARC, causing nondeliveries. Even Ubuntu's mailing list is misconfigured. It's really not pretty.
(12-03-2021, 05:01 PM)jasonriedy Wrote: Meanwhile, there are curmudgeons like me who are annoyed at all the web goo.
Yep, now we stumble upon the issue of SEO, people really really need to be able to find everything they need from search engines if it's more support or tutorial-oriented community. Mailing lists, their archives or old forum software are not great at that.
(12-03-2021, 05:01 PM)jasonriedy Wrote: To me, discourse is far too opinionated on how people work.
It is valid to find some workflows incompatible with one's own, but I think there's a very real "common good" situation here. Where for the majority it'd work better. Someone also mentioned it in their review of the Purism Librem 5 and PinePhone: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/12...l5-and-pp/
