I definitely agree with this, I go through my email, but hardly ever log on to forums, its just too much of a pita. Forms are useful, but mailing lists are better unless you get replies to replies ... too to many levels.
On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:00:24 -0500, Bjoern Franke via mailop wrote: > > > > > 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 > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una [email protected] _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
