On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 4:11 PM Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 at 23:03, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 8:41 AM Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I confess that I don't even know how to subscribe to all threads of a > discourse. > >> > >> - [ ] How to subscribe to all threads of discourse > > > > Go to the category you care about, e.g. > https://discuss.python.org/c/packaging/14, and if you look in the right > side next to "+ New Topic" you will see a bell. you can click that and > choose to what level you want to follow new topics (only new threads, > notification of all comments, direct notification of all comments, etc.). > > What I haven't quite got my head around is: what exactly is the > "workflow" with discourse if you are a regular follower/contributor on > some forum? > > Do people who use it a lot begin by going to the forum website? > I go to the website (I have a folder of bookmarks that I go to every morning, right-click on, and select "Open in Tabs"; one of those tabs is discuss.python.org). > > Do they get the email notifications and interact via those? > I personally don't. -Brett > > I've been working with discourse in the latter mode and from that > perspective it seems inferior. If the expectation is that I have to > begin by going to the website then that changes my fundamental > approach. Right now I subscribe to many mailing lists and they all > route to an IMAP folder. When I feel like browsing them I can go in > and skim messages from a wide variety of mailing lists. > > The other process seems to be that I begin by choosing to go to the > discourse forum website in order to look at messages in a particular > forum that I actively choose to look at at that particular time. If > that's the case then I would inevitably end up following fewer mailing > lists/forums since each one requires a momentary active decision from > me to read that particular list. I can imagine that that might reduce > the wider participation that is a big part of the purpose of these > lists. Maybe other people would be more likely to follow things that > way but I certainly wouldn't. > > > Oscar >
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