* On 2022 21 Oct 02:22 -0500, wwp via mc wrote:
Hello, well, now users (us) will have to go search for services (forum) instead of getting service delivered at home (ML), that's definitely a different approach and no real way to customize the delivery of such service.
I agree. I dislike Discourse but now if I want to follow the old GTK mailing list I have to login there. What really turns me off on it is the automatic locking of topics after a very short time (two weeks?) which is ridiculous as sometimes it takes much longer for an issue to resurface and get resolved. Then a user is left with having to start a new thread and hope that readers will follow a link to the locked thread for context. The conversation becomes quite disjointed and nearly useless. My experience with Discourse between two projects is that it is pandering and rather childish with the meaningless awards and congratulations it generates. It's really quite an annoying thing.
I don't clearly see the point in doing this, instead. of course, because of trying to tie everyone into clicks and monetization, what the web has now become. Emails are free and free of such monetization, the current web cannot allow this to keep going (see what Google did to emails). People I talked about this major turn around me are just disgusted and don't really want to run into web forums and live in a web browser. Prepare to see the audience being really different since now!
IIUC, this list was set up under the GNOME umbrella many years ago as the main developer then was one of the founders of GNOME. Midnight Commander has about zero to do with GNOME these days and other than this list being hosted on GNOME servers, it seems to be an independent project. The best would be if an email host could be found to take over this very low traffic but essential list. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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