On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 07:12 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote: ...
That's why the general trend is *away* from email.
The Foreman community recently switched away from mailing lists in this
way,
and
https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html
is really interesting and helpful read on the topic for those who might
have
some ... trepidation.
I'm not sayin' we are ready to shut this list down, but it's honestly
worth
considering if a different approach will be more effective.
Before the daggers come out.... please take some time to checkout Fedora Discourse https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ and read the Foreman community link above.
As I had previously mentioned, Discourse allows for RSS feeds and email notifications. It also has a mailing list mode.
From the foreman post, in the comments: Email interface does not really work, there should be rather called “notifications”. You must visit the site eventually.
I personally find this a fatal flaw, I do not have time to waste visiting slow websites for each project I follow. If I have to switch away from my mail client I just end up unfollowing the project unless I am focusing specifically on it at that time.
It really is a much better solution.
Better for whom and for what purpose ?
I am sure it won't be better for me, all "web forums" I ever used made for my disappearence from the platform as it was too expensive (time- wise) for me to keep up.
Simo.