Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord

Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by Miraste on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:41PM (#28554009)

> Email is a highly manual medium and degrades rapidly unless people use it well.

I'd argue that is a bad technology, at least for a general-use tool. I admit that I don't use mailing lists but I don't see how they have any advantages over a well-implemented forum. Trying to run a project over email and building an archival service to cope with it seems like a reversal of priorities.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by mch82 on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:55PM (#28571333)

I don’t have a strong point of view yet.

Linux [1] and Mediawiki [2] are two communities finding success with email lists. In those examples, the list archives can be read like a forum. Replies must be sent by email. It seems like the archive browser could benefit from a UX upgrade.

[1]: http://vger.kernel.org/

[2]: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

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