Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-30 Thread hellekin
On 09/28/2016 03:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > For me, discourse is nothing but silliness. The discourse summary and > discourse Digest emails I occasionally get are hard to read, boring, > and appear to be HTML formatted. HTML formatted? Sy what??? > If they appear to be HTML formatted,

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-29 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Edward Bartolo (edb...@gmail.com): > My suggestion is to use phpbb3 which is in debian.org's repositories. > There is no reason to use something else for a forum *assuming* Devuan > is free to install what it sees fit on its servers. To adapt an old advertising slogan, I'd walk a mile to

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Peter Olson
> On September 29, 2016 at 1:13 AM Edward Bartolo wrote: > > Hi, > > My suggestion is to use phpbb3 which is in debian.org's repositories. > There is no reason to use something else for a forum *assuming* Devuan > is free to install what it sees fit on its servers. > > Edward

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, My suggestion is to use phpbb3 which is in debian.org's repositories. There is no reason to use something else for a forum *assuming* Devuan is free to install what it sees fit on its servers. Edward -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Gregory Nowak (g...@gregn.net): > As for this new discourse thing ... I'm not a fan of forums, unless > it's a community I really want to be a part of, and forum is the only > way to participate. I much prefer to have e-mails end up in my inbox, > than to have to login somewhere, and look

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:09:20PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > Traffic on ye olde dng@lists.dyne.org has gone down a lot. > Is it because of this new-fangled Discourse thing? I'll admit I don't miss the traffic. In fact, I had considered switching over to the announce list, but then the traffic

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Dave Turner
Traffic on ye olde dng@lists.dyne.org has gone down a lot. Is it because of this new-fangled Discourse thing? DaveT On 28/09/16 21:38, hellekin wrote: On 09/28/2016 03:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Does anyone remember the great, text formatted, human created Devuan Weekly News? It's sad to think

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread hellekin
On 09/28/2016 03:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Does anyone remember the great, text formatted, human created Devuan > Weekly News? It's sad to think the Devuan Weekly News was supplanted by > Discourse Digest. > Oh yes I do. After Envite burned out on it, I had to take a lot of my own time to

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Jaromil
dears, On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Go Linux wrote: > Maybe someone else has something to say? Especially if you revel in beating a dead horse . . . of course the thread is still around and we are all reading, including hellekin. So far I (and just for one) stand by his strenous defense of a web

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Go Linux
Maybe someone else has something to say? Especially if you revel in beating a dead horse . . . - On Wed, 9/28/16, hellekin wrote: Subject: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums To: "dng" Date: Wednesday, September 28,

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:08:37 + hellekin wrote: === > On IRC #devuan: hellekin: Can we PLEASE move on from > Discourse. Very few people are using it and those who are loathe it > for the most part. It's holding