I've created the first Discourse post :) -dan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 1:01 AM Zaid Abdulla <z...@genieacs.com> wrote: > Hi, > > First off, apologies for not being active here for a number of months > now. Last year has been a very busy and stressful year for me and I was > barely able to keep up with work from the commercial side. I hope I'll > be more active now that I'm a little more on top of things :) > > That said, I want to hear your thoughts about possibly moving to a > forum software for the community discussions. I like mailing lists, but > I have two major gripes with them: > > 1) Formatting and threading. Most email clients use HTML emails and > have different formatting quoting styles. Then there's those corporate > email footers with a wall of text and logos! Worse yet, some email > clients don't handle threading properly. All that may not be a deal > breaker during the conversation, but it doesn't help make the email > archive into a good reference for future readers. These issues can be > *partially* mitigated by enforcing plain-text in Mailman (the mailing > list software), stripping attachments, and generally being anal about > posting rules. > > 2) This may not be a problem per-se, and maybe it's just me, but IMO > email is best for thorough and complete responses while in a forum a > back and forth exchange of short messages is perfectly okay. With > email, after a few exchanges you end up with a deeply nested thread and > the quoted text becomes an unreadable mess. > > With regards to the forum software of choice, I really like Flarum. > However, Discourse, which I also like, offers a hosted version and that > is a big plus for me as I'd rather not deal with maintenance and > upgrades. I went ahead and started a trial with Discourse. It's > available at forum.genieacs.com. Feel free to sign up and give it a > spin. > > -- > Zaid Abdulla <z...@genieacs.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.genieacs.com > http://lists.genieacs.com/mailman/listinfo/users >
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