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:
> ![Consolidated page views of discussion.fp.o, taken 2019 Aug.
> 21|690x182](upload://tiXc6yB5ZIut8Q9ssUeO91m4Uiu.png "Consolidated page
> views of discussion.fp.o, taken 2019 Aug. 21")
> [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:
>
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/application-service-categories-and
> -community-handoff/
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.
Well, this is a great example of how bad the Discourse gateway is. It wasn't
intended as such. If emails start showing up over there from other users as
me, this is why.
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John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com>
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