On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:24:35 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 08:53:18PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 06:15:21PM +0100, Ian Molton wrote: > > > Which web forum has the commuity moved to then? I should like to > > > join it... > > > > Sadly, the Debian project is not willing to move with the times and > > bless a modern web support community such as Discourse (a Stack > > Overflow or AskUbuntu-like interface, for those who are unaware). > > There it is, the "modern times" meme and the "mail is old" meme. > > I have seen lots of it. I have used Discourse (one of the communities > I take part in tried to move from a mailing list to Discourse: the > "forum" crawls on, as a half-zombie and a write-only medium, the real > action, is, five years on, still on the ML). Personally, I do hate > Discourse, with passion. As most of those fora. > > I won't go into details, because this is bound to be one of those > monster threads: let's agree on "it is a matter of taste". > > Nothing to do with "modern". > A lot of people confuse the words 'modern' and 'new' with the word 'better'.
Old people are largely more 'set in their ways' because they have seen a great many new ways tried and found wanting. -- Joe
