I agree with you, but those recommendations are chat clients, which sound even worse than email for the kind of discussions we have had on the mailing list.
Discourse is my pick. > On 23 Jan 2017, at 17:02, Joshua Alvarado via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey swifters, > I would like to (re)open up discussion on moving away from email for the > swift evolution mailing list. I know this has probably been discussed before > but it really should be addressed again. I wouldn't even know how to find if > it has been discussed before because it would be too hard to go back through > the history. > > The main factors to move away from email is because email may deter > newcomers, history, and threads. I may be speaking for myself when saying > email may intimidate newcomers from expressing their opinions and thoughts. > It is hard to know what has already been discussed and who is even in the > active conversation. Keeping track of history is a pain as well. Searching > through many emails to find who said what and when is not effective in email > clients. Also, code formatting in emails is not effective. Let's discuss and > actually make an action to move away from email if the community so agrees. > Of course, recommendations are Slack, Hipchat (-1), and Gitter. > > -- > Joshua Alvarado > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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