Re: [bitfolk] Discourse vs. mailing list

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 14:27, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 02:22:21PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
> > it would be yet another place to visit in addition
> > to my email inbox and the other million places I have to check daily.
>
> Did you know about mailing list mode for Discourse?

I'm not sure - I receive digest emails from other Discourse forums and
I don't find them entirely helpful with my workflows. I guess there
is also a "one email per message" mode which I haven't tried?

> I'm on 6
> Discourse sites at the moment and consume them all through my email
> inbox, although admittedly I do tend to click the link and compose a
> reply by web (you don't have to though; email replies work).
>
> > Email seems to work great here, so why change it?
>
> It does not seem to work great for everyone, and that's just the
> people that I notice trying to use it and failing.

Ah OK, got it. Well, my -1 just got milder then ;-)