On Mon 13 Apr 2020 at 07:32:56 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > If the project wants to implement Discourse as an adjunct to existing > communications channels, fine, I've no problem with that.
Me neither. While preferring email, I am comfortable with web-style interfaces for some of the user support I indulge in. > If, however, > the goal is arbitrary and wholesale replacement of all lists with the > jumbled mess that is my experience of Discourse, then I object. I do not know about "arbitrary", but a reason for -user being "...better off in Discourse". has not yet been advanced. Anyway, there will be an evaluation period in which we can see whether newcomers abandon -user and flock to Discourse without having their arms twisted up their backs. :) Making communication with newcomers more accessible and taking advantage of more featureful tooling has been tried before, but without sidelining -user. Coincidentally, the prime mover was also a DPL. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/09/msg00123.html My recollection is that the initiative never really attracted sufficient support. The site has since been put out of its misery. -- Brian.
