I've seen various communities having debates about whether to adopt Discourse of similar forum software instead of a mailing list.
Has anybody already prepared any objective wiki pages or blogs comparing mailing lists to forums and itemising each of the issues to be considered? Rather than repeating the same discussions in many places, it would be useful to link to something that covers it comprehensively. With Discourse in particular, each time it comes up somebody comments that it has a "Mailing list mode" option in the settings and suggesting it is a drop-in replacement for a mailing list. In practice, I've observed that the mailing list mode is better than what other forums offer but I feel it is somewhere between alpha and beta quality when compared to established mailing list software. If the developers really wanted to they could make it a full replacement for mailing lists but that doesn't appear to be a priority for them. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
