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

["Matthew A. Postiff" <postiffm comcast net>]

On 3/20/2019 9:37 PM, Reuben Rissler wrote:
> 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

The problem for me is clock. I tried Slack for a development project I'm 
leading, but important messages got lost in the shuffle. Also, it was 
just another website to check, another interface to learn.

Email has been a good aggregator tool to save time--it is just one place 
I have to check. I suppose this discourse instance is OK if gtk is all 
you do, but how many different sites can I visit to keep up on what is 
going on and to learn from what people are doing on all kinds of 
software? Today, people want you to check Slack and Github and 
Stackoverflow and Telegram and WhatsApp and email and this and that 
proprietary forum and a hundred blogs. It's overwhelming and can waste a 
lot of time. Oh yeah, and IRC channels....and what was that thing 
called...usenet newsgroups?...forgot about that.

I'm all for upgrades and using new tech, but in a way it is wearing me out!

Is it easy in discourse to turn on email, either daily digests or 
"live"? Is there an rss feed that I can subscribe to? A quick howto 
would be great.

Just my 2 cents. Thanks for reading,

Matt