I'm not suggesting the existing software to change, I'm suggesting something new. Pitching something that doesn't exist today (the D-Lang forums linked here come quite close though). Our goal is to merge our current forums with our mailing list and not have to maintain both separately.
So I'll thank you to get off my damn lawn, you and the seven crates of entitlement you carry around.
I design user interfaces and creating a new UI for basically what mailman does would really just be an attempt at grabbing a different target audience.
mailman has an image behind it. People associate with different images, and certain looks and feels make certain people gravitate towards them.
The type of people I would want in my mailing list are the type of people that appreciate how mailman looks as-is.
I try to practice great design where it matters most. A reskin of such software would be more aligned with the goals of junior designers and people who rehash weather apps with nice gradients on dribbble.
> "User needs"
Do you actually design anything?
Really dangerous.
Uggh ... really ?
So the simple, clean, extremely fast loading HTML indexes of mailman/majordomo[1] aren't going to do it for you anymore ?
Yes, I was getting so tired of one click getting me to a nice, clean index, ordered by year and month, and loading near-instantly. What a pain that's always been.
Get. Off. My. Lawn.
[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/