On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:11:50 -0400, bossfong <[email protected]> wrote:
As a "new kid", I'm really baffled by by how much discussion in the
developers scene is done in mailing lists.
I strongly believe that mailing-lists are not suited for heated
discussions on very specific issues. I even belive it's
counter-productive when comparing the discussion flow with modern forum
software.
You can use NNTP and a competent newsreader, I suggest opera mail.
I can instantly search all posts from all years in Opera. I can read posts
offline if I don't have access.
By modern forum software I mean discussion centric software like
disqus[1].
The only thing extra it provides is voting. We could potentially add
voting to the forum software, but I won't use it, since I use NNTP.
I will mention that I love disqus for web sites I visit casually. But I
don't think it's a good fit here, as most users have their own way of
accessing the data.
-Steve
