> > From past experience of technical mailing lists changing to forums, I'd > expect participation in a forum to drop dramatically. Mailing list > messages get pushed to members, forums require you to go and look. Even > if new posted messages are emailed to members, then it still requires > the member to click on a link, login etc before replying. From > experience, fewer people will do that. I was in a very active mailing > list with multiple messages daily. It changed to a forum a couple of > years ago. Now, it's unusual for there to be as many as one message a month.
This is the same experience I had with a community which tried to switch to a Discourse forum. Discourse is even capable of sending mails with List-ID / References in the header, but still has some issues. And mailinglist mails can be read even by a client on a mobile phone and have only SMTP/IMAP traffic and no overhead for loading several stuff from CDNs etc. Regards Bjoern _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
