In SO you have very little socialization going on. This mailinglist is awesome because it is filled with people who will enthousiastically share very detailed information, each in their own way. On SO there is no long-term narrative.
I subscribed to this mailing list because I needed help, and I didn't unsubscribe because of the interesting threads. With SO you have to be dedicated to follow a content stream. In my experience, Discourse offers a good balance between being chat-like and mailinglist-like, while also storing the collected wisdom for posterity. It does get indexed by search engines, see for example https://www.google.pl/search?q=site:forum.waytools.com or https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3aforum.waytools.com Indeed though, it requires JS to be enabled to post, but you can set up reply by email: https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-via-email-support/7764 On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:36 PM Dominique Devienne <ddevie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Wout Mertens <wout.mert...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > One more reason for some forum vs a mailing list: You can "like" a post > > without spamming everyone, thus showing your appreciation to the poster > and > > surfacing interesting content for summarization algorithms. > > > Or then reputation points can build up too. > But then you're quickly converging on stack-overflow... > > In fact, if there wasn't this high quality high responsiveness mailing > list, > the SQLite stack overflow subgroup would be better/faster I suspect. --DD > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
