On Sat, 2018-10-20 at 14:42 -0700, stan wrote: > There's a big mail thread on fedora-devel about using a web forum > software called Discourse instead of mailing lists.
I won't use them, at all. I don't participate in any of them. I've looked at some when googling for answers, hated every one of them. And you're going to find a lot of that - unknown viewers who don't contribute. I participate in several mailing lists. All my messages come to me, I don't have to login to several sites to do what I do. Forums are massively inconvenient. I see forums full of the same questions, so they don't change that aspect of mailing lists (people asking the same things, instead of checking first). The few answers I see on forums are often crap, uttered by the barely knowledgable, holding the wrong end of the stick. Want examples, look at the Ubuntu ones. Webforums are an even bigger mess of quoting crap. The separation of topics means a lot of clicking through to see what's going on, as opposed to scrolling through one message list. Webmasters like to keep changing how they work, so they're continually being inconsistent, but nearly always inadequate. There's usually more interface than content. The interfaces are often diabolical for anybody with eyesight problems. Browser incompatibilities... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. A positive attitude is worth the effort if it annoys enough people. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
