I was on several mailing lists that I would occasionally answer questions on when something popped up that I could help with. Most of these moved over to forums over time. I have no interest in popping in to a bunch of different forums everyday to answer questions. I still pop in when I have a question myself but I find the chance of getting a helpful answer has reduced.
Oh no, not Discourse :( I never liked Discourse. I guess mainly for the UI and UX/navigation.
Still likely an improvement for approachability. For a mailing list you essentially need pre-knowledge and a client to use reasonably well. A [Discourse] forum may need an account, but is hosted and straight-forward.
Given that it's already established I see why the question of alternative forms and platforms wouldn't even come up.
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qaz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Good, I don't get why so many people still use mailing lists. I don't like Discourse that much, but it's a big improvement nonetheless.
mccode@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y
I was on several mailing lists that I would occasionally answer questions on when something popped up that I could help with. Most of these moved over to forums over time. I have no interest in popping in to a bunch of different forums everyday to answer questions. I still pop in when I have a question myself but I find the chance of getting a helpful answer has reduced.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Plus lots of them get indexed
Kissaki@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y
Oh no, not Discourse :( I never liked Discourse. I guess mainly for the UI and UX/navigation.
Still likely an improvement for approachability. For a mailing list you essentially need pre-knowledge and a client to use reasonably well. A [Discourse] forum may need an account, but is hosted and straight-forward.
Given that it's already established I see why the question of alternative forms and platforms wouldn't even come up.
fr0g@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1y
Discourse is also working on a Fediverse integration. So at some point you might not even need extra forum accounts.
Irelephant@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
If they use the fediverse integration that discourse is working on, it'll be fine.