Re: [orca-list] Our list will be moving to Discourse
- From: Kyle <kyle free2 ml>
- To: orca-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] Our list will be moving to Discourse
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:23:08 -0400
As web forums go, Discourse is probably the easiest to read. That said,
if I had to go to websites for every discussion I may want to
participate in rather than just seeing the messages come to my email,
well, that does get a bit hard to handle; I just wouldn't be able to
keep track of everything as easily as I do now. Web forums are great if
I'm looking for something specific that could be anywhere, as a simple
Google search can usually turn up 5 or 6 forums where people have
already discussed the exact issue I'm having and someone on at least one
of those forums most likely found the solution and posted it. But
well-indexed list archives can do the same thing, and an email list
tends to be easier to follow, especially if a topic comes into my inbox
and I already have the solution, in which case I just hit reply and post
it straight from my inbox instead of having to check a website several
times a day to see whether or not something has been posted in the
category or topic where I can possibly be of some help or otherwise
contribute to the discussion. There is supposed to be a mail list mode
in Discourse settings, but apparently that emails every post in every
topic in every category in the whole forum, which would obviously cover
far more than just Orca, how to use it, how things work with it, how to
make things work better with it, etc. I for one don't want to think too
much about the politics of the board of directors and governance of the
GNOME foundation; that kind of thing makes my head hurt, so I probably
wouldn't want all that stuff in my inbox. On the other hand, if we will
be able to subscribe to a category by email, say Orca for example, and
then every topic regarding Orca just gets emailed, and if it's possible
to email a new post about Orca and it just goes to the right place, then
it does seem like it could be a workable solution that at least has the
potential to perfectly balance the web forum and the email list, much
like groups.io seems to be able to do, but the web forum portion will
probably be easier to read, as Discourse appears to display the entire
thread with each post title on its own heading, which I find to be very
nice indeed.
~Kyle
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