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

[Kyle <kyle free2 ml>]

I've heard about most of the improvements in Discourse in recent years, 
and did give specifically GNOME's Discourse a look, although I didn't 
try to post anything. I really like what I did see though, and am 
encouraged even more by the fact that the Discourse developers actively 
solicit input from screen reader users. I'm still slightly concerned 
about the finer points of contributing to a discussion via email, 
especially what seems like an almost all-or-nothing approach, but it 
seems that as long as I can track Orca specifically, and at least get 
the first message posted in any new topic related to it, then overall, 
the change looks like it will be good. I just dont' want to miss 
anything, unless I choose not to see it. The main thing is that many 
times I want to follow a topic but don't necessarily want to reply 
immediately. This is especially true as it relates to a question someone 
else may post that I don't know the answer to but want to see the answer 
as it is posted.


I think what I liked the most as I read a thread on GNOME's Discourse 
was the fact that I could see the whole thread, and could jump back and 
forth between the messages by heading. So if I read the first part of a 
message and wanted to skip on to the next, I didn't have to close the 
message and open the next one; simply pressing h took me where I wanted 
to go. And then if I wanted to reread something earlier, I could press H 
and get back just as easily. In the slightly modified words of an audio 
player I once used more than 20 years ago, that really whipped the 
email's @$$ LOL.

~Kyle