On 7/1/19 9:02 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:48 AM Luigi Toscano <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Nate Graham ha scritto: > > On 6/29/19 4:04 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Hi Jonathan, > >> Thank you for setting this up! > >> I've recently had the opportunity to experience Discourse in > action in > >> another community, and found it to fulfill most of the things we > found > >> lacking in both of our current forum and mailing list software (which > >> makes sense given that they're both age-old and haven't seen much > - if > >> any - exciting feature development in years). > >> So I (personally, not speaking for the board) would really like us to > >> test it out and see if we can replace first our forum and > hopefully some > >> day Mailman with Discourse. > >> Thanks, > >> Thomas > >> > > > > +1, I'm also quite in favor of this. Having used it in other > communities, I > > find that it works well as a sort of half-forum-half-mailing-list > tool that > > can succeed in replacing both. > > I may have already asked this: do we have a plan to evaluate also > hyperkitty > (mailman 3 frontend) before completely replacing also the mailing > lists? It > provides a forum-like interface. > > -- > Luigi > > > I'm using the Mailman 3/hyperkitty for genealogy mail lists at > Rootsweb.com. I was not in on the setup, which IMO is not done very well > at Rootsweb, so maybe these comments are unfair. > > So far though, I Do Not Like MM3, or hyperkittly. If there is a way to > administer lists via the commandline, as we have now with Listadmin, > I've not found it. Hyperkitty (besides being an extraordinarily bad > name) is not a good forum replacement at ALL. The search barely works, > for starters. True, the way our KDE list archives is set up is bad as well. > > That said, I'm not sold on Discourse. I've tried the one ubuntu has set > up [1], and have not yet figured out how to get the email interface to > work correctly. Aha, while clicking around in it I see that they didn't > enable that feature. I find Discourse hard to move around it. I keep > having to mess with the URL to get back to Home. So far, old mailman > lists + IRC/T/Matrix wins. > > Whether Discourse could replace our KDE forums is an open question.
I haven't really tried Discourse's mailing features yet (apart from getting digests of new forum messages), all I can say is that the forum part is far better than our current forum (which isn't even mobile-friendly at all). That's why I said "forum first, mailman maybe at some point in the future".
