On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:40 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they silently go to the correct mail folder, I can read through them at my leisure, and I only have to deal with one client - my mail client. My mail client defaults to sane viewing rules, threaded, in the order I prefer. It's the same experience across every mailing list I'm a member of. I love that. It's very accessibility-friendly.
+1
Not long ago the Gnome Project decided to stop supporting a number of mailing lists, including the list for Evolution, in favour of an instance of the Discourse web forum. We were told that a forum could provide everything a list provided, and you could even interact with it via email, so clearly it was a Good Thing.
It shortly became clear that the user experience of interacting with Discourse via email was significantly worse than a traditional mailing list, so a bunch of us set up a new list (evolution-users@lists.osuosl.org) where we continue on our merry way. The Discourse instance still exists (the two mechanisms are entirely separate with no cross-posting between them), but traffic on the mailing list is noticeably greater than on the forum, which I think says something.
poc