On 13/06/2025 12:21, Christoph Hormann wrote:
michael spreng <[email protected]> hat am 13.06.2025 geschrieben:
The OpenStreetMap Community forum has a mailinglist like interface
enabled, which works well enough.
Not really. The so called mailing list mode of discourse presents email users
with a different reality than those using the web interface and does not
provide an archive for the email version of reality. In short: email users are
second class citizens in discourse.
I've been critical of Discourse in the past as forum software for a
couple of reasons, but I use Discourse's mailing list mode all the time,
and the idea that you get "a different reality" in emails to what is
visible in the forum is simply untrue.
By "the email version of reality" I presume you mean "what was in a post
originally, before any edits"? Discourse literally does provide an
archive of this. As an example
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-would-you-describe-the-identity-of-openstreetmap/130372
has been edited 8 times, and each of those edits can be viewed. Is there
any other reason why you think "email users are second class citizens"?
I'd also argue that what's important about an import is the links that a
notification here has - see for example
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2025-February/007291.html
, not what was written to this list. Also, the "list archive" isn't
always useful - see the last "announcement" here
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2025-May/007294.html .
Best Regards,
Andy
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