I much prefer a web based forum, easily searchable by topic for one thing. As it can be used in email mode as well, then that is available also for those who prefer it.

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 14:41, Adam Spiers <bitfolk@adamspiers.org> wrote:
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 14:27, Andy Smith <andy@bitfolk.com> 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 ;-)

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