discourse instead of mailinglist?

[Michael V. DePalatis]

Hi,

Just a humble user here, but here are my thoughts: a forum (such as
Discourse) can be a nice way of asking questions and getting quick
answers (as well as being useful for searching for answers to frequently
asked questions), but it is best as a supplement to, rather than a
replacement for, a mailing list. Some reasons that I personally prefer
mailing lists over forums include:

* No need to register another account which I may use infrequently but
still need to think about having a strong password anyway
* It requires more active thinking on my part to view messages: I have
to actively visit the forum. With a mailing list, I just have to check
my inbox.
* Mailing lists feel more personal: it's relatively easy to continue a
discussion privately by email directly. On forums, this maybe can be
done via private messaging, but then if it doesn't go directly to a
user's email inbox, it could go unnoticed for a while (see first two
points).
* Configurability: on most mailing lists, I can choose to receive a
digest of messages rather than getting them individually.

I would absolutely welcome a forum like Discourse for Kallithea. I just
hope I can continue to (at the very least) read about Kallithea's
development on the mailing list!

- Mike

On 08/14/2016 12:46 PM, Dominik Ruf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since gmane ist practically dead I'd like to propose discourse as our
> discussion tool.
> 
> I suggested google groups way back in 2014 which was rejected because it
> is not open source.
> 
> http://www.discourse.org/ is open source and it provides much more then
> a simple mailing list.
> 
> It makes it more accessible for people to ask questions and can so help
> to attract more people to the project.
> 
> BTW I set up my own demo instance at https://discourse.dominikruf.com/
> 
> -- Dominik Ruf <https://profiles.google.com/dominikruf/about>
> 
> 
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