Hi guys, Discourse can be used as a mailing list just as Google Groups can, and it should be possible to import the current subscribers to this email list to Discourse. So it would be a pretty seamless transition. Then the people who want to use the web UI, with its advanced features like syntax highlighting, user-pinging, etc, can do so alongside those who continue to interact with a Discourse-powered julia-users via email.
There's one technical restriction on using Discourse via email - when you reply to a post, you have to write your entire reply at the top of your email. You can't reply inline to different parts of a message. They're looking to fix that soon, and it seems a relatively minor inconvenience compared to the advantages that Discourse will offer. On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 9:51:23 AM UTC-5, Charles Santana wrote: > > My $0.02: I consider julia-users as a mailing-list. In general, my main > communication is through emails. I write the posts to the mailing list > using a webmail interface, but I use to read the posts of others from an > email client or from mobile. Of course I can adapt myself and use another > platform to communicate, but it would certainly take some time to be used > to it. My vote is to keep the mailing list working as it is, even if we > decide to put efforts in the other platform too. > > Best, > > Charles > > On 12 January 2016 at 14:46, Tom Breloff <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Just to throw in my $0.02... I use gmail most of the time, and I have a >> few filters to auto-partition into a directory structure I like which >> combines github and google groups emails. If I could no longer do this I >> would be disappointed. >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Mauro <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >>> I second Tamas: a good email interface is a must. This seems to be >>> lacking currently: >>> https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-interface-suggested-improvements/32140 >>> >>> On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 11:32, Tamas Papp <[email protected] <javascript:>> >>> wrote: >>> > On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hmm, I didn't consider that. I *never* read the emails, instead using >>> the >>> >> email notifications as jumping-off points to go into the forum. I >>> always >>> >> thought it strange that people refer to posts as 'mails'. >>> > >>> > I don't see an alternative given my preferences --- as I said, I don't >>> > want to deal with different web interfaces. Also, sometimes I work >>> > offline. >>> > >>> >> But, surely, plain text for code is *terrible*. Wrong or no >>> indentation, no >>> >> syntax highlighting, no font contrast between code and text? Or are >>> you >>> >> able to achieve some of those with your Emacs setup? >>> > >>> > Fixed width font takes care of indentation. For short code snippets, I >>> > can live without highlighting, for longer code I prefer if people post >>> > it as a gist. >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > >>> > Tamas >>> >> >> > > > -- > Um axé! :) > > -- > Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD > https://github.com/cndesantana >
