It might be worth talking to someone from the HacMan group (I can provide some names) who moved wholesale from Google Groups to Discord. I *think* they lost a single member over the change, but have, as a result, had some extensive experience in setting it up to replace a "mailing list".

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On 21 June 2018 at 18:29, Andy Smith <andy@bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hello,

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 06:02:48PM +0100, Andy Bennett wrote:
> How does Discourse compare and does it ever require a visit to a website
> (even for maintenance things such as unsubscribing)?

As far as I recall you do have to sign up (and unsubscribe) from the
web interface. Email interaction isn't the default mode, so you need
to create an account on a web site, log in to it, and then set it to
mailing list mode.

Cheers,
Andy

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