It seems that the only thing in that link that has merit in regards
to this list is that
discourse allow editing of messages that has been sent.
As for the other things I disagree with pretty much everything. I don't think email
is
too hard to use, I don't think large mailinglists are a problem, I don't see any
spam here, I don't think linking to things in emails is hard etc.
Discourse has many uses but it pushes people toward a single interface where as
mailinglists let's people be much more free to choose their own interfaces.
And yes, discourse can email me when things happen, the formatting of mail does make
following the conversation much harder than a simple maillinglist.
I also thought this was discussed earlier this year and that the conclusion was that
discourse was a bad fit.
I received an email from Fedora Discourse earlier this week and it looked fine. I was
able to reply directly or press a button which opened up the web interface. Are there
differences that I didn't notice? Probably... would most people notice them...
probably not.
As far as you not considering the other advantages listed as meaningful, that's your
opinion and you're welcome to it. I simply disagree.
As far as discourse being a bad fit, I also disagree. Whenever change happens some people
are always resistant... but to make progress change is required and legacy items are
sometimes impacted.... some examples are KDE 3 to 4 to 5 - GNOME 2.3 to 3... Python 2.7 to
3... the list goes on.