> On 30 Nov 2022, at 16:59, Luna Jernberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Discord is not using IRC its a closed echosystem

I meant irc like… not that it was an irc client.

Barry
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 5:57 PM Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> On 30 Nov 2022, at 14:19, Tim via users <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 22:32 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>> While we're on the topic: all the GNOME mailing lists are moving to
>>>> Discourse (similar to HyperKitty but much *much* worse). The ostensible
>>>> reasons for this included "better control of spam" and "Mailman depends
>>>> on Python 2", the latter being clearly nonsense as the Fedora lists run
>>>> on Mailman3 - which is why we have this HyperKitty crock in the first
>>>> place. (Note that GNOME hosting is provided by Red Hat, so go figure.)
>>> 
>>> My experience with using Discourse is as a phone app.  It's reminiscent
>>> of IRC (live chat via text, group voice chat, file sending).  As I
>>> recall, it has origins in the gaming fraternity, one of those group
>>> VOIP things used alongside their networked games.
>> 
>> The irc app is discord, not discourse, and yes its big in gamer circles.
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
>>> 
>>> Live stuff suits some people.  I can see its value in allowing
>>> diagnosing an issue in real time.  But that's dependent on responders
>>> being there at the same time.  And there can be too much noise going
>>> on.  I dabbled with IRC decades ago, but left it and never returned.
>>> Spending all night chatting with strangers about whatever was just
>>> eating up my spare time.
>>> 
>>> Email is good for people spread across multiple timezones, who can wait
>>> for more than one response.  Who'd like to post the "argh, I need help"
>>> post as they give up on an issue and would like to tackle it tomorrow.
>>> It's good for people who have some spare time to read through the days
>>> posts, and respond where they can.  It's far less demanding on you.  I
>>> can keep easily tabs on all the things going on in here (and easily
>>> find old posts on something), I can't do that with discourse, or web
>>> forums, that require clicking all over the place.  Not to mention that
>>> I have lots of other non-Fedora things I'm interested in.
>>> 
>>> It can have an searchable archive, but any time I've googled for the
>>> solution to an issue, it's never returned a Fedora mail archive result
>>> for me.  I usually get Ubuntu forum results, often useless
>>> (inapplicable, or answers from the floundering clueless).  Sometimes
>>> Reddit (of about a similar quality to the Ubuntu forums).
>>> 
>>> Does this archive exclude google?  Even if it didn't, no matter what
>>> medium you use, you can still get multiple people asking the same
>>> question, because they (we) don't search first.  Mind you, though, I
>>> keep tabs on all the threads in here while I'm idle, so I've a fair
>>> idea if someone else has brought up a subject I've got an interest in.
>>> But it tends to be new issues that I see, I haven't noticed the
>>> multiple people asking the same question issue that used to plague some
>>> other mailing lists I was on many years ago.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> NB:  All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
>>> I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list.
>>> 
>>> The following system info data is generated fresh for each post:
>>> 
>>> uname -rsvp
>>> Linux 5.19.15-201.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Oct 13
>>> 18:58:38 UTC 2022 x86_64
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