On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 at 00:12, 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?
This is what I do, personally. For me, the email integration sucks, so I turned it off completely. I set the "Latest" view as my default view, visit the site regularly (I have it as a second tab alongside my gmail tab) and click on any topics showing as having new content. I suppress any categories that I don't want to see (like "Users"). It's not very sophisticated, but my usage of email isn't that sophisticated either :-) > Do they get the email notifications and interact via those? No, as I say I find the emails pretty bad, so I don't use them at all. > 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. I initially found having to use 2 sites (gmail and Discourse) a nuisance. Now, it's a minor inconvenience. > 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. That's certainly a valid concern. I only really use Discourse for the one "list", the packaging list (I see others, but they are low traffic - as I said, I hide "Users", which may be high-traffic, I don't know). I've expressed my concern that I think Discourse could scale badly if it became high traffic in multiple categories, but at the moment it feels to me like mostly Packaging-related with a bit of other content, and I can cope with that. Paul -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/7RWNE44BX5WMGFXHQYTQXKVJGL5JVOOA/
