On 08/04/2015 12:28 PM, Florian Anderiasch wrote:
On 08/03/2015 12:22 AM, Stephen Coakley wrote:
Personally, I'd like to see the mailing list move to a forum-type
system. Lower barrier of entry, more visible archives, and more modern
medium that supports other kinds of attachments and whatnot.
I don't buy the "lower barrier of entry" argument.
Forum:
- Sign up via web form
- Get authentication email
- click on it, be logged in or not
- post
List:
- Sign up via web form
- Get authentication mail
- reply
- post
Someone iirc said you can even reply without signing up, so it might be
even lower. Unless you're saying people don't know what a mailing list
is or how it works - then ok. The same could be said for any type of
web-based infrastructure.
My actual main gripe with forums is that you can't skim it as easily (if
you're not reading every thread) because everything is split up into
subforums and paginated and whatnot. Or would "internals" be one subforum?
~Florian
My thought is that no, a number of people don't know what a mailing list
is (obviously no one in here already), but everyone knows what a forum
is. The web is everywhere and is taking over the world, whereas mailing
lists are not. I'm not saying we should jump on the bandwagon, but that
a forum (or other web-based system) has a "lower barrier" because people
already understand that barrier. You are right though, it makes no
difference to someone who understands neither mailing lists nor forums.
My only real beef with the current system is this:
- Don't mind tons of email -> mailing list
- Do mind tons of email -> really old news server
Not a problem for those who don't mind tons of email, but if you do, you
need to get a client for a really old protocol.
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Stephen Coakley
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