Since we’re airing grievances … The format of the response below is exactly what bothers me most about email lists and why I favor forums. The etiquette is to quote what you are responding to and remove everything else. Imagine 4 other people quoted different parts of the original email, I now have 5 disjointed emails going off, perhaps, in 4 different directions. With a forum, topics can be split and merged retaining all parts of OP’s initial post/email and I can ignore the tangents I’m not interested in.
Secondly, a forum only notifies you when you are part of a thread (either started or replied to one) which reduces the email traffic tremendously. You aren’t poked with an email every time someone has a thought or issue, rather, you instantiate the interaction with the forum. Yes, I know digest option is available, but really, who wants to wade through an entire month’s worth of emails in one shot. Thirdly, from a practical workflow perspective, I would much rather scroll through a thread that is on one page than to click n-number of emails. Of course, having to click into multiple emails is due in large part to my first point. … and I’ll probably get yelled at for top-posting as well ;-) Bottom line: Count me in for migrating and I also have resources to host it if need be. From: lilypond-user-bounces+david.santamauro=gmail....@gnu.org <lilypond-user-bounces+david.santamauro=gmail....@gnu.org> on behalf of Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> Date: Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 9:37 AM To: tim...@bitstream.net <tim...@bitstream.net> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Discourse > Additionally, I find value in the archived aspect of web fora in > which all the discussions remain available in a very convenient > manner. If you look at the e-mail fields of any message you receive from the list, you can see the following List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/lilypond-user>, <mailto:lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user> List-Post: <mailto:lilypond-user@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user>, <mailto:lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> We *do* have an archive, with search. Werner
