On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:36:34 -0500 John Kaufmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-02-17 10:22, Dave Howorth wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:03:41 -0500 John Kaufmann wrote: > >> On 2021-02-17 04:06, sophi wrote: > >> > >>> Just to let you know, we, at TDF, are working on replacing the Ask > >>> forum by Discourse. We have had a test period with the members > >>> regularly answering on Ask. If Discourse is not fully replacing a > >>> Q&A forum, it is the most appropriate at the moment and we can > >>> extend it to serve other purposes on the future. ... > >> > >> Looks interesting, and seems to have potential to subsume also the > >> mailing list system. (It needs to be integrated with a MTA, which > >> it does not provide, but merging web and mailing list forums seems > >> to be an explicit objective.) If so, that could solve the problem > >> of which forum (AskLibO or mailing list) to use for a question. Is > >> the intent to also migrate the mailing lists to Discourse? > > > > I seriously hope not! Discourse works OK as a forum but the mailing > > list side is very much a poor cousin. Far easier and better to use a > > plain mailing list IME & IMHO. > > I sympathize, Dave; I also like a mailing list or newsgroup. It > sounds like you know Discourse and find the mailing list side > wanting. But if Discourse is an attempt to serve in a single forum > users comfortable in both media, it may at least /become/ a solution > to the problem of a fragmented user knowledge base. In my experience it becomes a way of forcing the email users to use the web forum instead. The only purpose the email interface serves in practice is notifying of web posts. Even a bridge as Sophie suggests is likely to kill the mailing list IMHO. > I'm hopeful, > -John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
