Re: [Gimp-user] Discontinuation of mailing lists and moving to Discourse

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix posteo net>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 02:43:53PM +0900, Joel Rees via gimp-user-list wrote:
> I'm not an active user of the lists, haven't posted in ages. so I was just
> considering ignoring this thread and when the list disappears disappearing
> from the community myself.
>
> But I decided to investigate discourse to see if I would be installing a
> client or whatever, and I find the project pages really don't tell me what
> I want to know before I install something new. (That other thing, Discord,
> for instance, does not seem to be surviving the move to the new phone. I'm
> getting pickier.)
>
> So I went to Wikipedia for a better overview and I noticed something
> disconcerting on the Wikipedia page –
>
> Paraphrased: This reads like advertising material. And, ... nine years
> later it still reads like advertising material.
>
> Not a confidence builder. Which means, yeah, lurkers like me will likely
> disappear from the community.
>
> FWIW.
>
> Joel Rees

Exactly my same feeling. I wonder: since the very low traffic of these
lists, was it so hard to keep them alive? Why not ask for a hand before
deciding to migrate?

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Amike,
Marco Ciampa