Hi Dan * Badges are easily turned off. Those are On by default because it is a forum platform, more than a mailing list. * How notifications look is just a piece of HTML in the settings, can be tuned to the liking if needed.
The sophistication I was talking about when it comes to interacting with the community are: * there are 4 levels of "intensity" of notifications that one can configure individually per topic, or per category, or per tag - from "silent" to "normal" to "watching" to "tracking" * can reply both via email or via Discourse web interface - so covers both world; for example, I personally communicate much more productively over the web interface, while others prefer email * all the knowledge is well organized in categories and with tags, as well as indexed and searchable with all the filters one could need * interlinking between topics, aka building a wiki-style knowledge base * summarization mode for long topic * wiki messages (everyone can edit - or people with certain level of access can edit) * Q&A with "Solution" checkbox for category(ies) of your choice, aka Support channel (aka Stack Overflow mode turned on for particular categories) * plenty of self-regulated community features, i.e. people can "flag" spammy or rude messages (and those hide them once certain amount of flags All this, in my experience, helps the community to thrive exponentially by having those bits of engagement, searchability, knowledge-base ability, self-regulation etc - without the need of too much moderation. Well, of course I don't have an intention to pursue this idea - just sharing a suggestion. Organizing knowledge and keeping it up structured and up to date is nearly impossible in emails. With Discourse you could have everything in one place - from Cookbook to Q&A to Documentation to Wiki to internal developer discussion etc. So I'd suggest at least familiarizing yourself with the reading I shared above. I genuinely think it can make the community more public and discoverable, and easier to interact with. Thanks, Anton On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 6:20 pm, Daniele Nicolodi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/jOqHyWwdTQk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 > . > -- 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/CAPxdvt4dn87Tfv5nE_yN2RzX1B%2BXYS89XkwN8DgRx%3Dr9vFguCw%40mail.gmail.com.
