On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 12:43:02PM -0700, stan via devel wrote:
To each their own, of course, but there was a long discussion of discourse here a while ago. I tried it out, but it was like a bad version of a mailing list. It sent me a mail informing me that there were messages to read. Then I had to go there and read the messages on the web, using their interface.
That's definitely the primary intended mode of interaction, but there is also a "mailing list mode" which does more of what you want. (One email per post, and you can reply directly.)