On 2021-10-07 11:10, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote:
Can't GNUCash find an open source web app that does structured forums in place
of email full on copied replies upon replies in a long, unstructured text
string? I the 90's I used a MULTICS app called forum that… [did all kinds of
wonderful things]….
There must be open source web apps out there to do this, in lieu of this email
thing! A daily reminder summary of new and replied topics would then suffice.
David:
I sympathise with your frustration. Just about every project I
participate in needs to find a way to communicate. Nearly every project
which tries email encounters the drawback you experience.
The MULTICS app "forum" sounds wonderful. However, next to its
advantages, I'll bet it had a few drawbacks: 1. everyone had to connect
to the same forum site to participate in the discussion, 2. someone had
to be system administrator for the forum site, 3. the format might have
worked well for you, but it did not work well for some other people.
Forums and email lists are two different approaches to meeting the same
communications need. They have complementary strengths and weaknesses.
Each approach works better for some people and worse for others. The
corresponding advantages of an email list over a forum are: 1. the
discussion comes to each person's email inbox, 2. it is less work to be
system administrator for an email list than for a forum, 3. the format
works well for some people who don't like the forum format.
That said, in the other projects I visit, the forum software called
Discourse <https://www.discourse.org/> currently seems the best-designed
option widely available. One of its strengths is that you can sort of
interact with it via email threads if you want to.
I predict that we could have a big discussion about the pros and cons of
email lists and forums, and we would end up without a resolution; we
would discover that no one option works for everyone.
Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
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