On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 00:51 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > For those who are interested, see > https://groups.io/g/evolution-users > > It is now, up to you to decide what you want to do.
I have no problems with people signing up to whatever they want, of course, but I have to say that I'm on one or two other groups.io lists and IMO it's not great. Messages arrive out of order, sometimes they never arrive (I get replies to messages I never saw), and often they take a very long time to arrive (compared to when they were sent). And, the threading is often all broken (although some of that can be attributed to the other people on the list: they are local neighborhood lists and there are lots of non-technical people who know nothing about the correct way to manage email, and are using really terrible mail software). As problematic as the Discourse email support is, I think I'd prefer it to groups.io. Maybe my experience is an outlier. I don't personally care about all the wingdings on Discourse since I don't plan to ever use the website. They can add all the badges and nonsense they want. I got promoted a level (I assume to level 1) just by visiting for a couple of days in a row (to mess with my config) and reading a few threads (to ensure I was getting the messages I wanted). I didn't have to "like" anything or use any emojis or anything like that. And I don't see much benefit in trying for more than that. I do believe that this move will result in a decrease in the usefulness and amount of discussion. It would be very interesting to come back in 6 or 12 months and compare the traffic to the current list versus the traffic in Evolution tag on Discourse; I hope someone does that check. Maybe it will be a net benefit, as people are more able to find and interact with the Discourse site. But my suspicion is it won't be. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
