Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The key point of my suggestion is not to introduce "another stream of communication", but to replace this mailing list by Discourse, which can still act as a mailing list for those who prefer via-email-only communication.
If you're willing to give it a try, we can setup a test instance and import the existing mailing list into Discourse, so that it is indexed and searchable, and can be further categorized and tagged by the community leaders. While with mailing lists you can quite easily get overwhelmed by the bandwidth, with Discourse you could control the frequency of notifications you get per-category, or even per topic. E.g. get messages immediately from the developers and community leaders group, and get a weekly digest of new topics from the Support category - i.e. you can fine-tune the traffic according to the degree of the engagement you want. I definitely don't want to suggest anything that would eat more of your time. Vice-versa, it could allow the community to self-organize and produce a knowledge base, faq, cookbook, etc. With a mailing list, though, there isn't much you can do to make the community self-organize and self-develop and self-moderate. If my arguments are appealing to you, let me know and I can help setup the test Discourse instance. If not, I'm happy to keep using Google Groups while finding the solution to my own problem for which I originally wanted to employ Beancount. I wouldn't setup any side-community owned and curated by me though, as it not the type of contribution I had in mind. Thanks, Anton On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 7:34:17 AM UTC+10:30 [email protected] wrote: > I have a really low bandwidth these days and the mailing-list is already > hitting my attention quota limit regularly. > I'm not sure I have time to monitor another stream of communication. > Actually, that's not right, I'm pretty sure I don't. > You're welcome to start something; if you need my attention, just make > sure to ping me via email, > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 8:09 PM Anton Andriyevskyy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello community and its leaders who make decisions about the means used >> for communication within the community. >> >> May I draw Discourse <https://www.discourse.org/about> to your attention >> as a possible replacement to the current mailing list? >> >> It is a very sophisticated open source solution that not only replicates >> all mailing list features, but also acts as a public forum with lots of >> features, from categories/tags to per-topic notification levels, with all >> features you can think of from syntax highlighting to reply-by-email. >> >> Having used it to help setup and run multiple communities over the years, >> I am certain that using it helps any community flourish and draws more >> attention to the target product around which the community is formed. >> >> Here is the introductory post that highlights main features: >> https://www.discourse.org/about >> >> This FAQ compares Discourse to mailing lists: >> https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-email-mailing-lists/54298 >> >> If you would like to give it a try, I can help setup an instance of >> Discourse at a VPS of your choice. Or you can apply for a free hosting >> for Open Source projects <https://free.discourse.group/>. >> >> Finally, one example of Discourse running as a discussion platform for an >> accounting software would be the Manager Forum >> <https://forum.manager.io/>. >> >> After familiarizing myself with Ledger, HLedger, and eventually >> Beancount, and after reading your article about the conceptual / >> phylosophical difference between Beancount and the others, I fell in love >> with Beancount immediately - because of the fundamental principles the >> author put at the core of the product. >> >> Then my attempt to dive into discussions followed, which made me feel a >> bit lost and confused as Google-based mailing list lacks some of the great >> features that Discourse offers out of the box. Hence my immediate >> irresistible will to write this email and let the community leaders >> consider the possibility of using Discourse. >> >> Do you think it is worth the time discussing this? >> >> Many thanks, >> Anton >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2bc24d9b-b3e6-4aa9-ae77-f1192ce50cdbn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2bc24d9b-b3e6-4aa9-ae77-f1192ce50cdbn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/86d8992a-05b5-4fc6-becb-05429065eb5bn%40googlegroups.com.
