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

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

OK, here's what I found.

1. In a Discourse forum, click the button with your name. This makes 
your notifications pop up, but there's a tab bar above them.

2. Click the Preferences tab.

3. Click Categories.

Here it seems you have a list of categories where you're either watching 
them, tracking them, only notified of the first post, etc. I believe 
this would let you, say, only get the first posts in categories you're 
interested in, get every post in categories you want to follow more 
closely, etc. So in theory, this is your mailing list replacement. You 
just have to manage it differently, and have the option of only getting 
one post per thread if you want. Also, in theory you can mute threads 
you're not interested in and get no further emails on them.

I think it's a good change, and worth giving a shot. FWIW I don't intend 
to check in regularly on an Orca forum either, but I will set up email 
preferences and follow it that way, and it looks like it should work 
almost identically, save for a different email address and more 
flexibility in how you get messages.

Disclaimer: I did this in another Discourse community I'm in. Can't say 
whether GNOME's does the same, but I'm guessing they pay for hosting, 
and my assumption is that hosting is up-to-date.

On 9/13/2022 12:25 PM, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> My point about audiogames is not that it doesn't have its problems, 
> but that accessibility of the web forum is apparently not a problem 
> for all the blind users who use it. Please note that I did say I was 
> playing devil's advocate when I linked to it. I'm sure it could 
> benefit greatly from an update. But the fact remains that many blind 
> people use it despite its problems. I don't, but many do.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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