And no, I don't like discussion forums like reddit or Discord either.
Discord should be completely out of question, given that it is non-indexable by search engines (btw, technically this mailing list isn't indexable either without projects like externals.io).
Writing to the amount of people following php internals should be done with some consideration and more social media type of platforms unfortunately - in my experience - tend to encourage noise.
As I mentioned in my other reply in this thread, IMO sending an email is not a gigantic barrier to entry, as can be seen by the often low (technical and overall) quality of the replies to many of the threads on this list.
Personally, I do not think that gatekeeping (!) and spam-prevention are a good reason to keep using a broken and outdated system like mailing lists in 2024.
Large projects like PHP will still inevitably attract attention, regardless of whether github or mailing lists are used; I personally dislike mailing lists not because they are difficult to use, but because they are simply broken: every time I had to deal with any mailing list, including this one, I had both incoming and outgoing deliverability issues related either to DKIM/DMARC, both on gmaill and zoho mail on a custom domain, or some other issue caused by modern anti-spam measures that mailing lists do not account for.
I really don't think that a modern discussion system can afford to randomly loose messages: mailing lists should not be used in 2024.
Regards, Daniil Gentili.
