> On Feb 6, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Chris Hanson via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2017, at 2:24 PM, James Berry via swift-evolution > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Speaking for myself only, discourse seems to give me little of value, while >> it would plaster emails with html-laden buttons, etc, thus making my favored >> experience worse than it is today. I’m fairly happy with using a gmail >> account and server-side filters to file my swift-evolution mails into a >> mailbox that I can then read on or offline with the threaded email client of >> my choice. > > This is my feeling as well. I also looked at the so-called “native app” for > Discourse and it looked like just a wrapper around the web site. It wasn’t > nearly the level of experience that I get from a high quality mail client > like Mail.app or GMail. > > I would be all for a forum-like web interface to the mailing list for people > who find mailing lists somehow lacking or who have difficulty configuring > filters. However, I would be opposed in the strongest possible terms to > anything that makes the mailing list interface any sort of second-class > citizen, which is definitely what it appears switching to something like > Discourse would do. >
With regard to threading: I’d encourage those who want web forums to give Mail.app a try. It does a remarkable job of keeping emails threaded. (incidentally, I’ve tried a few 3rd party email clients, the usual suspects with both iOS and macOS support, and find them *worse* at handling mailing list style email chains). There’s even more flexibility in the reading experience with things like Mutt where everything is customizable. Overall, I feel like the maturity of email tooling is not emphasized enough here. > -- Chris > -- who would also be opposed to using something like HipChat/Slack over IRC > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
_______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
