On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 01:33 +0200, Ángel wrote: > 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 ;)
I phrased that wrong. What I meant was that I occasionally search for issues which have been dealt with (not necessarily by me). > > > > 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. > Exactly. > > 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. That's my current thinking until proved otherwise. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
