That first email reads like a cross between a mathematical proof and some kind of satire. Good stuff :)
The broad communication needs seem to be: (1) a bulletin board / a channel for announcements (2) a forum / a channel for discussions (3) chat / a realtime channel. (4) a knowledge base (5) a broadcast / external-facing medium It sounds like the proposal here is to use Discourse for both (1) and (2). All of the above become (4) if they are archived, but there is also the wiki (which I didn't know about) and of course the website and docs. Anyone can tweet @racketlang for (5), I guess. And we haven't really talked about (3) yet. Some considerations people have brought up include: *Noise*: I agree that Discourse is likely to have more volume. As a result, simply using it in mailing list mode isn't exactly a 1-to-1 replacement, since the volume of emails would be higher, making it less appropriate for announcements. It would be nice to be able to have more fine-grained controls over which messages get emailed (e.g. in terms of category or activity). The other (complementary, in my view) option is to use digest mode. In traditional mailing lists we pick one or the other. In Discourse, it seems that if you visit the site, it doesn't send you the digest for that day. It would be nice if it could be configured to always send a digest, to actually emulate mailing list behavior. Finally, I did notice that I wasn't able to reply to a Discourse post from my phone. It looked like my phone email client was using the default sender instead of the Discourse-specific one. I don't recall that happening in similar situations before, but it's entirely possible that this is a problem with my email client. In any case, with these improvements, I do think Discourse could be compelling as a replacement for the mailing list for most people. *Open source*: I agree this is an important criterion (which is one reason you'll find me on IRC rather than Discord or Slack). Phil's point that Google Groups isn't open source while Discourse is, seems a compelling argument for Discourse here. *Terms of service*: Can't believe I signed my rights away to company_name without even reading applicable_laws in jurisdiction_here. On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 9:19 AM Sage Gerard <s...@sagegerard.com> wrote: > Mozilla's notes on their own instance summarizes an email-exclusive > workflow well. > > https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/how-do-i-use-discourse-via-email/15279 > > On 11/22/21 12:16 PM, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote: > > Yes, I believe that replies by email are currently enabled. Here, let me > test that. > > > > … > > > > Oh, yeah… can’t do that, the incoming email address isn’t the one that I > send from. Sigh. Perhaps someone else can try this? > > > > One thing that I know isn’t set up yet is starting a new topic by email. > I know it’s possible, but somebody needs to read the docs and check what’s > required in order to set it up. > > > > John > > > >> On Nov 22, 2021, at 11:56, Sage Gerard <s...@sagegerard.com> wrote: > >> > >> Y'all are configuring Discourse to allow replies by emails too, right? > >> > >> On 11/22/21 11:00 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > >>> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 15:25, Martin Weigele <mar...@weigele.de> > wrote: > >>> A discourse type forum - we had this discussions in other contexts > again and > >>> again - may be a better choice for persons who have the luxury they can > >>> concentrate on very few thingies. For all others, mailinglists are a > much > >>> better choice, you can follow many developments in one place: your mail > >>> client, with a completely standard UI. > >>> > >>> Discourse has a mailing list mode each user can choose to enable which > allows them to receive every post to their mail client, so you can continue > to use your mail client workflow for following messages over there as well. > >>> > >>> - Ryan > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CA%2B952WrzFB-FVWzn0%3DmES3kLd5XsU6gXqG8Vi8gij7Fz0J_Qgw%40mail.gmail.com > . > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/37a16e37-a38f-906f-3f7a-4c008e5a0a76%40sagegerard.com > . > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/df2d0a47-804e-4275-a4b3-dbfd2116a702%40mtasv.net > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/afb88687-458a-2516-9f1e-2fef2dfa39d7%40sagegerard.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. 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