On 2020-08-20 at 22:24 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 21:40 +0200, Ángel wrote: > > > you can easily browse through previous topics that might answer your > > > question, and so on. > > > > > > And do people really do that? It also depends on what is considered > > > > "easily", too. > > I use the Search function to find old posts that I remember dealing > with some issue.
I was referring to new users coming to a new community. You would hardly count as newcomer ;) > > The "mailing lists are hard to browse" would probably be solved with > > mailman3's hyperkitty, which gives a forum-feel to the archives. > > I don't like that it tries to add things like "voting", though, as that > > escapes the role of a mailing list. > > Having seen HyperKitty deployed for the Fedora mailing lists, I dislike > it for a number of reasons, the main one being that almost no-one > remembers to quote context when replying. So that leads to the opposite way: people using a mailing list from a forum-like interface, and using that as a forum... not quoting previous mails. > It may be possible to unify lists and web forums under one interface, but HK > isn't it. :( If we end up having conflicts on the expectations on how people use a mailing list vs how they use a forum, I'm afraid it may not be possible at all. Regards _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
