On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Sprocklem <[email protected]> wrote: > Adding reddit will mean one of two things: either I need to remember to > check the Agora subreddit regularly (whereas with email, I am notified > of new messages by my email client), or people will be required to send > a link to (important) reddit content to another forum, possibly > resulting in a lot of link-only messages (which I may still need to > check on regularly to see the actual discussion).
It's possible (since a few months ago) to get email notifications from Reddit for replies to your posts and comments, but I'm not sure if you can arrange to get everything in a subreddit... of course, Reddit has an API and we could do something custom. Personally, because I'd like to avoid (a) fragmentation and (b) dependence on external services if possible, I'd like to stick with one forum which can be accessed by both email and the web. To expand on the options I mentioned: == Hyperkitty: reasonably pretty; I'm not a big fan of their design decisions though. Demo at: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected]/ GroupServer: just found this by searching; haven't heard of it before. Looks reasonably sane. http://groupserver.org/ Google Groups: I didn't think of this in my original post. It does provide a usable web interface, but it's a centralized service and I'm not a fan of their UI. I assume everyone's seen what it looks like, but: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.unix.programmer Discourse: a quite competent open source web forum; has an email interface but, as I said, it sucks. https://users.rust-lang.org Custom: web forums aren't rocket science, and neither are mailing lists; I could spend some time to write a custom one, which would have a better interface than GroupServer or Hyperkitty (live updates and such). == Regardless of what we use, we shouldn't keep requiring people to manually sign up for three separate mailing lists - it's intimidating, regardless of how much actual time it takes. Besides, the web interface should have all types of posts (reports, actions, discussion) combined. With Google Groups (or Reddit for that matter), that means there would have to be a single forum: we could either standardize some tag in the subject line or something to distinguish "business" from "discussion", or just drop the distinction and expect people to read all messages. With the self-hosted options, the software could be modified to preserve the current separate list address system while still requiring only one signup, but we should probably still consider whether that's actually a system we want to continue using.
