On 11/09/2013 16:02, Lester Caine wrote:
That used to be what Yahoo egroups provided until someone decided that it was 'old fashioned' and re-write the web user interface. :( They seem to have forgotten that 'plain text' is still a valid format, and now html messages get displayed in longhand on emails. The email interface on some forum packages is next to useless, but when it is provided properly then the question is asked "What has changed?". I have all the traffic on this list since 2004 all reasonably threaded and with a few 'nasty' messages deleted. Putting that onto a website does not give you anything really, except you have to keep monitoring a few dozen websites rather than JUST looking in your single email list.
No, I'd argue the hierarchical view and upvote/downvote system adds significant advantages. Just look at what the latter alone has done to PHP documentation comments: now the most useful, and (hopefully) least absolutely terrible ideas security-wise are the top.
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