On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 at 11:18:09 -0500 "G. Matthew Rice" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > We're using Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/) on another project and > the suggestion came up that, maybe, it's time for us to move on from > mailing lists to something a little more accessible (and probably appealing > to a younger crowd). > > Personally, I've been very anti-forums but Discourse does have some nice > notifications options (https://www.discourse.org/features) which look like > a reasonable replacement and would let me continue to use email to keep up > with discussions. I can't remember to go back to forums which is why I > usually don't participate in them very much. I think that > Discourse+notifications would solve that problem. > > So, what does everyone think about giving it a try? We can leave this list > intact and post the occasional reminder to the list. I am on two projects in slack.com, one of them is the LPI Italia channel (or site, or whatever they call them). I find email clients faster and more manageable once configured. And I must add both those projects have seen very little activity on that ... ?? platform, forum, channel? It probably is not the tool's fault, maybe it does have it's advantages, but I do like web-based communication tools in general. I prefer to keep thing simple and to separate the messages (preferably plain text) from the communication channel instead of mixing them inside a portal laden with tons of bells and whistles and so much CSS and HTML5 that it makes my 3rd gen i7 slow down noticeably and occasionally stall for a few seconds. So far no one blamed the mailing list for been improductive, too slow or too difficult or instable or difficult to search/store/backup/retrieve/migrate... I know email is old, youngsters don't like it (you cannot embed a live streaming in an email, after all), it's hard to keep spam out of the way and cryptography never really took off, but I feel it gives me more control of what I have in my inbox and that it's lighter-weight and much more responsive. However there might be some use-cases that would be better served by Discourse. I don't now, we might try it, without ditching the mailing lists yet. I am afraid I will use it just as much as I use the Wiki, that is very little. To follow what has been happening on the mailing list I only have to run my email client, which I do first thing after login. The Wiki, just like Discourse or Slack or any other web-based tool, it's not enought that I run the browser to be presented with the latest things that happend since the last ime I was online. I must remember and want or need to open the specific site and login, which sounds like trivial things to do, but I figured out they're not as trivial as opening up my email client. What's special about Discourse that would constitute a clear advantage compared to having, say, a Diaspora channel? > PS - Happy New Year!! I hope it's going to be better than the past one, but I remember I wished the same also last year, and the one before, and the one before, and ... so on. Sigh. Happy New Year to everybody! Alessandro _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
