I have not enough experience with all the possible alternatives to give a vote for a specific system, but the mail-approach can be very tedious, and there are several things that a just not possible or very clumsy: - You can't edit a message that has been send - Tagging capabilities are very limited (no public tags…) - Searching & linking… (quite sure this has been mentioned extensively ;-) - Mail.app splits topics in strange ways, so it is very hard to follow discussions
Sending a message is the only way of interaction, but imho it would be beneficial to have a lightweight alternative to just signal agreement (or something else) to posts. Receiving little or no feedback can be frustrating, and I expect there are many messages that didn't receive the attention they deserved, just because it is somewhat stupid to write an response that just says "absolutely right, I have nothing to add here" (feel free to prove me wrong ;-) Mailing lists have some benefits as well, but afaics, Discourse can basically run a list on top of all the discussions, so we wouldn't loose anything. Tino _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
