What I meant mostly is two things:
People like me tend not to be happy about things turning into forums
and are likely to participate less. As an example, openstreetmap
moved from mailinglists to forums and I have not, so I interract far
far less and spend more time on other things. I am probably somewhat
unusual (started doing email in the 70s), and here probably only strk
thinks I"m normal :-)
My perception, perhaps off base, is that discourse facilitates
people showing up, posting a question, and getting replies to the
question, without also getting delivered to them everything else on
the "mailing list". Thus I expect a lot more help desk type
interactions, where new people ask a question and don't really engage,
rather than joining the community.
Many projects have communities of long-term participants who get to
know each other. Partly from on-list, but partly from off-list
converstations which are enabled by getting emails with the other
person's email address. I don't see this happening in a discourse
world. I'm not arguing there are no mechanisms and that people could
not make it happen. I am saying that I expect it to happen much less
in practice.
I don't have any good ideas about the first pointl.
The second point could be addressed by allowing web signup, but allowing
posting only if one has email delivery of all messages, and having the
From: address be the person, and not breaking DKIM signatures. In
short, having the email interface be a first-class non-broken
mailinglist, while also having a forum view.
(I've dropped psc because it doesn't allow non-members to send.)
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