Re: [orca-list] Our list will be moving to Discourse

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hi,

One more decision that woun't improve anything at least for a11y.
If you don't want to use mailman any more switch to simpa.

If the orca-list will move to a webbaed forum I.ll stop using it!

BR.
Halim

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:34:18AM +0200, Christian Schoepplein via orca-list wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 09:41:58AM +0100, Jace Kattalakkis via orca-list wrote:
> > Don't get me wrong Discourse has some really, really nice
> > features under the hood. But....it is not as quick or easy to respond to
> > emails or skip over topics I don't much care for, for example I can just go
> > down to the next message in  Mutt or Thunderbird, vs having to go down the
> > topic list then wait for Firefox or Brave or Chromium or whichever browser
> > I'm using to load up the page then scroll all the way down and past the
> > message I want
>
> Thats the biggest problem IMHO. It will take much more time for blind users 
> to read through the content and post messages. It will be useable maybe, 
> never tested it, but it will be more complicated.
> > I feel like the idea of moving to a web based forum isn't really practical in
> > the long run for simplicity and ease of use, honestly. It's taking away the
> > quick and easy part of a mailing list
>
> Full ACK.
>
> On the other ahnd there seems to be the possebility to use Discourse also 
> via mail. A quick search gave the following result:
>
> ---
> Using Discourse as a mailing list
>
>  1. Sign up to Discourse using your email address, and log in.
>  2. Click user icon, then your user name:
>  3. Click “Preferences”:
>  4. Click “Emails”:
>  5. Click “Enable mailing list mode”, and select frequency of emails:
>  6. By default, you will be subscribed to posts in all categories.
> -----
>
> If that really will work it would be OK maybe also for those persons who 
> like not to use the webbased version.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Schoepp
>
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