On Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at 03:38, John Harris wrote: > On Monday, August 26, 2019 4:54:09 AM MST Markus Larsson wrote: > > It seems that the only thing in that link that has merit in regards to this > > list is that discourse allow editing of messages that has been sent.
Which I'd consider a misfeature. > > As for the other things I disagree with pretty much everything. I don't > > think email is too hard to use, I don't think large mailinglists are a > > problem, I don't see any spam here, I don't think linking to things in > > emails is hard etc. > > > > Discourse has many uses but it pushes people toward a single interface where > > as mailinglists let's people be much more free to choose their own > > interfaces. And yes, discourse can email me when things happen, the > > formatting of mail does make following the conversation much harder than a > > simple maillinglist. [...] Agreed. > > On 26 August 2019 13:33:38 CEST, "Gerald B. Cox" <gb...@bzb.us> wrote: > > >If you disagree with something that is stated, you need to in detail > > >explain why, not just claim it is marketing and therefore invalid. > > Consider also that > > 1) You can't forward or CC on an email reply to Discourse, or you're opening > up your account so that anyone can reply as you. > > 2) Its formatting is completely broken, and edited messages don't get sent > out > to the "mailing list mode" subscribers. > > 3) You can't x-post a message > > 4) You can't easily create a thread based on another thread > > 5) It doesn't send out more than a set number of emails a day, regardless of > what goes through. > > All this, among a few other things we addressed when the CommOps folks were > moving to Discourse. 6) You can't reply to messages older than 90 days via e-mail. You'll get a bounce. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
