Discourse is a Forum and not Social media
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:47 AM Barry Scott <barry(a)barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
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> On 30 Nov 2022, at 01:03, Jeffrey Walton <noloader(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 5:33 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 06:38 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
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> Well, so much for the notion that web forums are better at stopping
> spam than mailing lists...
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> I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now.
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> Reported it.
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> While we're on the topic: all the GNOME mailing lists are moving to
> Discourse (similar to HyperKitty but much *much* worse). The ostensible
> reasons for this included "better control of spam" and "Mailman
depends
> on Python 2", the latter being clearly nonsense as the Fedora lists run
> on Mailman3 - which is why we have this HyperKitty crock in the first
> place. (Note that GNOME hosting is provided by Red Hat, so go figure.)
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> The Evolution list has already been replaced, and as many of us have
> decided that this is not a usable substitute we set up an alternative
> list at:
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https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-users
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> If there is any danger of this nonsense happening to the Fedora lists,
> I hope we get sufficient notice (GNOME originally gave us only 10 days
> warning, though they later extended it) to allow for alternatives to be
> discussed.
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> This email is so depressing. It saddens me to think there may not be a
> mailing list anymore.
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> I don't do social media. I won't start now. I refuse to be the product
> on a private platform.
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> Its not social media. Its discourse that is open source.
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> Python and fedora already have discourse servers up and working.
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discuss.python.org and
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/
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> Personally I find them easy to use and better then email mainly because i can use
markup to format code and other text.
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> Barry
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> Jeff
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