+1; let's switch over. On Feb 19, 2016 9:00 AM, "Jonathan Malmaud" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> 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]> 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]> 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 >> >
