> On Dec 23, 2017, at 10:20 PM, Raf Czlonka <rczlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 06:32:30PM GMT, Adrian Sampson wrote: >> While I’m here, I wanted to remind this list that discussion is slowly >> transitioning away from this Google Group and to our Discourse instance. >> Here, for example, is the equivalent post announcing 1.4.6 there: >> https://discourse.beets.io/t/ann-beets-1-4-6/249 >> >> We don’t have any specific plans to shut down this Google Group, but I do >> expect it to continue waning with time. See you on the Discourse list! >> > > Hi all, > > I don't know about the majority here but for me personally, Google > Groups are just mailing lists, i.e. I use my mail client as the > "interface". > > With the move to Discourse are you effectively changing the mailing > list into a web forum? I've read that Discourse can also handle > mailing lists but I couldn't find a friendly email address anywhere > after creating an account.
Hi, Raf, Yeah, it’s something of a trade-off. Discourse has the benefits of being more approachable for some people and being easier to moderate for project maintainers, but it’s less great at emulating a mailing list than Google Groups. The designers of Discourse do have the stated goal of working well for email-focused users, but somehow they’re still only 85% there. That said, I do interact with Discourse primarily through email. There’s a “mailing list mode” checkbox in settings that sends all posts to me over email, and I can reply to those also via email. Hypothetically, it looks like you can also make new posts by emailing beets+uncategori...@discoursemail.com (and this address may even be customizable), but I haven’t tried that yet. We’re still figuring things out, clearly! Thanks for your patience. Adrian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beets-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
