Re: ANNOUNCE: Phasing out GTK mailing lists and move to Discord

[Reuben Rissler <silrep emypeople net>]

> RIP gtk-app-devel.
:'(
> I hope this discourse thing succeeds. Personally I find it just another
> awkward, cumbersome run of the mill QA site. The mailing list should be
> preserved. But what do I know? I've only seen about 90% of these migrations to
> forum like sites lose users and community involvement over the past 20 years.
> Here's to hoping that gtk-app-devel-list will be one of the 10%.
I will probably not participate in Discourse. I posted on the 'hello' 
page just to get the feel of how Discourse works, but found nothing to 
make me a Discourse type of person. I check StackOverflow on a regular 
basis, but I get rewarded there. Discourse has no reward feature and I 
find it rather impersonal compared to email. The mailing list felt like 
a community, not a QA site. Exactly what Discourse does that bug reports 
on Gitlab and/or StackOverflow haven't covered, I am not sure. 
Fragmentation, maybe?
> What is the technological hold-up to doing both? Listserves are no cost simple
> implementations that should be able to mirror posts from discourse to the
> existing list and vice-versa. That would seem to be the way to go until you
> have some assurance that discourse will preserve community involvement instead
> of just doing it on hope.
I originally thought I would participate on Discourse via email, then 
email got discouraged in favor of the web UI.

I don't have that much answers, and neither do I have a lot of 
questions. Therefore I will just quietly fade away...

Reuben