Bastien Guerry <b...@gnu.org> writes: > Discourse is nice but I'm not favor of installing an instance for Org. > > Beginners often ask questions on reddit.com and stackoverflow.com (and > perhaps elsewhere): perhaps some regular users of these websites could > serve as "contributors stewards", redirecting interesting bug reports, > patches or feature requests on this mailing list.
That's an unfortunate truth. reddit and stackoverflow require users to run non-free JS to write comments. Discourse would provide a familiar interface for beginners + not force them to use non-free JS. In addition, there will be no risk to lose information or the annoying reddit behaviour when no comments can be added to old posts. > My gut feeling is that we should focus on making the mailing list more > accessible for beginners, more useful for everyone before considering > setting up another communication channel. > > I have a new version for Woof! (https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/woof) that I'd > like to finalize and set up this month - let's see how this helps and > reopen this topic in three or four months? I do like the idea of Woof!. My main concern is that adding new features to Woof! (like tagging threads, adding more categories, etc) is putting even more load on you. I am not sure if Woof! can be on-par with Discourse features given that you are the only contributor. Best, Ihor
