On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 7:26 AM Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 11:39 +0000, Barry Scott wrote:
On 13 Nov 2023, at 11:01, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK it's Discourse, not Discuss (or Discord). I say this only because the official Evolution support has moved to that platform along with a lot of other Gnome stuff.
You are right the software is Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/) and web sites often use discuss.<domain>.
Fedora uses discussion.fedoraproject.org http://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ KDE uses discuss.kde.org Python uses discuss.python.org http://discuss.python.org/
Personally I prefer discourse to email for its markup and editing capabilities.
I dislike it because a) it requires a browser (I know you can interact with it via email, but that's genuinely terrible, and b) discussions disappear after a time rather than being permanently available.
Yeah, things were a lot better with mailing lists. You did not have to join a social media site, you weren't the product, and search engines could index the messages and subsequently return them in search results. Nowadays it's difficult to find things.
I could go on, but I don't want to hijack this thread.
You can't put that genie back in the bottle :)
Jeff