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

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

Web forum threads get derailed just as often as email discussions. 
People are people no matter what software they are using. I mean, holy 
cow, you can't say diddly on Facebook w/o it degrading into a political 
free for all.

And there is no way web forums are as accessible as email. You can use a 
email program that has good accessibility features but you can't control 
the programs a developer might use on a web site. It is easy for a web 
developer to put code on their page that makes it accessible no matter 
which browser you are using. It is way more difficult to do that in an 
email message.


On 9/13/22 12:08, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list wrote:
> I don't have any experience with Discourse in particular(the forums I
> currently frequent use either XenForo or phpBB), but I'd argue forums
> and mailing lists are about equal in whether they're
> accessible(Gmail's basic HTML view works well with every version
> combination of Firefox+Orca I've tried, but the JavaScript crippled
> version is essentially unusable, and even the basic HTML view doesn't
> play well with any text-mode web browser I've tried)... and to be
> quite honest, I wish the giant, monolithic platforms like FaceBook,
> Discord, Reddit, etc. hadn't killed off the majority of independently
> operated forums.
>
> Though, I think I prefer forums over mailing lists, especially if the
> forum has features such as the links to subforums and threads being
> HTML headings, their either being an HTML heading at the beginning of
> the body of individual posts or the body of posts being block
> quotes... With a Forum, I can just check in once every day or two,
> read the threads that interest me while just skipping over the others,
> and don't have to worry about missing something interesting because a
> thread got derailed...Mailing lists are just one of several reasons I
> need to check e-mail several times a day to avoid a massive backlog,
> topics often change wildly without a change in subject line, Even if
> don't want to read a message, I have to take the time to trash it then
> delete it forever, plus I have to keep track of which lists reply to
> the list by default, which reply to the last poster by default, and
> regularly clean out my contacts due to accidentally replying to all or
> to individual list members instead of the list since Gmail like to
> clutter my contacts with everyone I ever send a single e-mail to.
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