Re: [bitfolk] Discourse vs. mailing list

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Author: Andy Smith
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Hello,

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 02:41:07PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 14:27, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> > 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?


Yes, it's in that area of the settings. Changing it to "mailing list
mode" sends one email per response, they are threaded and you can
just reply to them in email to reply.

They are HTML though. A battle I gave up on years ago.

> > 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 ;-)


The deck's being stacked somewhat by asking a mailing list what they
think of something that's not a mailing list, but I thought it might
be interesting to see how many genuinely do prefer it even if it
comes out as a minority.

There really are people who don't get along with email, find it
outmoded and awkward etc. But maybe not enough of them to pay
attention to (yet).

Cheers,
Andy

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