On 01/12/2020 08:47, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: > On 30/11/2020 02:09, Anton Andriyevskyy wrote: >> 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. > > I strongly disagree on the fact that Discourse is a sophisticated > solution that replicates all mailing list features. I use discourse to > interact with the CPython development community and the experience is so > poor I really don't understand how the CPython developers manages to use > it as their main communication channel. > > Discourse replicates the experience of using a mailing list only if your > interaction with email is via a web email client of the late 90ies: > there is no support for threading of the replies, the HTML email sent by > tre system have an horrible formatting where emphasis is on the > decorative parts rather than on the content, etc.. > > Email notifications are also delivered with completely unpredictable > criteria or at least so if feels without spending too much time tweaking > settings. I now enable the "mailing list mode", maybe it will work better. > > Finally, I don't see why Discourse (by default, at least) needs to give > Facebook the opportunity to track all my activity on the platform.
And I really hate the "gamification" of the interface. Why should I receive useless notifications about earning equivalently useless badges such as "Welcome", "First quote", "First mention", "Editor", "Basic" for every Discourse instance I join? What's the purpose? Cheers, Dan -- 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/dca03489-054d-d0f5-116e-475cac40bb46%40grinta.net.
