RE: No longer supporting mailing lists:
On Wednesday, August 21, 2019 7:32:06 AM MST you wrote:
[quote="JohnMH, post:4, topic:2184, full:true"]
If you’re deadset on using a Discorse subforum where nobody will find you,
would you consider bridging it to a mailing list?
[/quote]
Without data or metrics about mailing list usage, it is difficult to assert
that Discourse is hard to discover. We do have some data on Discourse page
view metrics, with about ~2000 views each day and better discoverability in
search engines:
[quote="lbalhar, post:5, topic:2184"]
Do you think that a mailing list is more visible? Joining a mailing list
means that you already know that a mailing list (or a group) exists and you
have to intentionaly find its address and join it. Here, I can imagine that
somebody will just spot some of our discussion and join it or at least will
know that we are here in case they’d need us.
Do you think I am wrong and having a subcategory here is not a good
idea?
[/quote]
@lbalhar The platform should make sense for your audience. Whether platform
X or platform Y makes your discussion more visible depends on who is in
your community and who you are trying to reach out to. Personally I think
the improved search engine optimization of Discourse makes it easier for
new people to discover conversations in Google/DuckDuckGo/et al, but this
is only one factor.
It is also worth noting Fedora Infrastructure no longer supports
mailing
lists:
RE: No longer supporting mailing lists:
This project literally cannot function without mailing lists. We do not
currently have a viable alternative. See all of the issues we've had trying to
work with Mailing List mode on Discourse. It is not a complete feature, so we
(at least I) cannot recommend switching to it at this time.
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John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com>
Splentity
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