> People continue to use email lists because they work. Nothing works as >>> well as a good email list, with a searchable archive. My advice: Don't. >>> Just don't. >>> >>> Thanks for this advice. Any comments? >> > > Mile's observation is valid and real. >
I'm afraid it is not in this case: Reply-by-email enabled for all Discourse customers <https://blog.discourse.org/2016/07/reply-by-email-enabled-for-all-discourse-customers/> How do I use Discourse via email? <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/how-do-i-use-discourse-via-email/15279> Reply by email, mailing list mode and create topic by email <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/reply-by-email-mailing-list-mode-and-create-topic-by-email/202> Google Groups works as well as it does because we can choose to use email > client or browser editor, and switch back and forth at whim. Though I > almost always use browser to 'talk' I still keep my email subscription > active, so I have a personal backup in the event Groups is inaccessible, > temporarily or permanent. > You can do all that with Discourse if you want: choose to use email client or browser editor, keep your personal backup, etc. > My chief attractions to Discourse are: > > - the prospect of being able to refactor and split threads, while > keeping them linked > - Being able to edit posts, like wiki > - Liking posts, creating a signal people can use for understanding how > important that idea is to the community > - Excellent browser editor > - Web experience in general is better and smoother than any other > other forum I've used (inc. Google Groups) > - Track record of the lead developer (a primary creator of Stack > Overflow). > > This list is a good summary of some of the pros of Discourse. I can add some more to the list: - Open source with 699 contributors <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/graphs/contributors>, 28K+ starts <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/stargazers> - Easy creation of polls <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-polls/77548> - Community driven moderation and other strong moderation features for moderators <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116> - Better organization of posts by using Categories and Tags <https://blog.discourse.org/2017/10/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/> - Social login supported with Google, GitHub, Facebook, email, ... - Markdown <http://commonmark.org>, BBCode, and HTML formatting in posts - Mailing list support - Automatic backups - Hide spoilers - Sitewide alerts & pinned topics - Huge list of plugins available <https://meta.discourse.org/c/plugin> like: Discourse Solved <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-solved-accepted-answer-plugin/30155>, Discourse Voting <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-voting/40121>, ... - Allows importing our Google Groups email list <https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-hosting-for-open-source-v2/101940/10> If they accept to give us the free hosting, I would give it a try. We can take a better decision after trying it for a while and seeing how it works. *Final Disclaimer*: I'm NOT affiliated in any way with Discourse. As I already explained, this happens to be a field I've been very interested for years and finally found in Discourse many of the good things that I was expecting for any modern communication system. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/5966e22e-507f-49cf-81e4-1c731886cd2b%40googlegroups.com.
