On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:40:05 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
>
> Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum
> to discuss a topic or technology, like
> https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/.
>
> Having said that...
>
> I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they
On 03/11/2024 12:49 AM, Tim via users wrote:
Joe Zeff wrote (about web forums):
why don't you simply set as many of them as possible to email you
when there's a reply?
Have you noticed how many of them won't let you reply to an email
notification? Essentially you get a "someone left you a mess
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:40 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
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> Am I the only one who feels this way? Has the day finally come where
> I'm
> just old and set in my ways? Are there others who prefer mailing
> lists
> to fora?
>
> To be clear, I am not bashing fora, per se - I'm just saying that for
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024, 13:40 Thomas Cameron,
wrote:
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> I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each
> forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT. And I have to go out of my way to even
> remember all the fora I am a member of. For those of us who are members
> of a bunch, it's kind of a
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 22:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It shortly became clear that the user experience of interacting with
> Discourse via email was significantly worse than a traditional mailing
> list, so a bunch of us set up a new list
> (evolution-us...@lists.osuosl.org) where we cont
Joe Zeff wrote (about web forums):
> why don't you simply set as many of them as possible to email you
> when there's a reply?
Have you noticed how many of them won't let you reply to an email
notification? Essentially you get a "someone left you a message"
message, no details on what the messag
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:32 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> However, realize that you spend a long time setting all that up.
> The subscriptions, filtering, how things look in your email client, etc.
> For someone new or just wanting to ask a question or two, lists are
> horrible.
I say forums aren't
Thomas Cameron:
>> I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each
>> forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT.
Joe Zeff:
> Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of
> them do you actually need to look at each day?
Firstly, I thoroughly agree with all of T
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 11:40:05 AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
>
> Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum to
> discuss a topic or technology, like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/.
>
> Having said that...
>
> I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:40 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they silently go to the
> correct mail folder, I can read through them at my leisure, and I
> only
> have to deal with one client - my mail client. My mail client
> defaults
> to sane viewing r
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:23:04 +
Barry wrote:
> You log in once only, the login is remembered in a cookie.
> Just only and close the tab as needed.
On some forums, not on others.
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> On 10 Mar 2024, at 20:03, Thomas Cameron
> wrote:
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> Basically, the fora require you to open a browser/tab, log in, and only
> *then* can you read your message
You log in once only, the login is remembered in a cookie.
Just only and close the tab as needed.
Barry
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> On 10 Mar 2024, at 19:21, Thomas Cameron
> wrote:
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> For fora, I have to explicitly remember that I've even posted something
> (which is often a problem due to the ADHD), then open a new browser or tab,
> go to the forum, log in, find my message, and see if there are any responses
> or w
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:19:27 +0100
wwp wrote:
> Tried fora a a while when I was forced to and finally gave up with 80%
> of them
So who's working on a web forum/email interface that is totally independent
of the web forum so the forum couldn't stop you from using email even
if they wanted to? See
Hello Thomas,
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:40:05 -0500 Thomas Cameron
wrote:
>
>
> Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum to
> discuss a topic or technology, like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/.
>
> Having said that...
>
> I love mailing lists. I have filt
On 3/10/24 14:17, Dave Close wrote:
To me the analogy is, in the olden days, a company sending you postal
mail in care of the local post office, the PO sending you a post card
that something has arrived, and you having to go to the PO and show
your identification to retrieve the item. No one woul
On 03/10/2024 01:46 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
On 3/10/24 14:39, Thomas Cameron wrote:
... but that's always the case with the myriad of fora which which I
interact.
Correction, I meant to write "that's not* always the case..."
OK, fair enough. But you still don't need to keep tabs constant
On 03/10/2024 01:39 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
Where did I write that I did that at all? The Fedora forum *can* send
emails, as Kevin pointed out, but that's always the case with the myriad
of fora which which I interact.
If so, as I pointed out before, you don't need to keep all of those tabs
On 3/10/24 14:39, Thomas Cameron wrote:
... but that's always the case with the myriad
of fora which which I interact.
Correction, I meant to write "that's not* always the case..."
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On 3/10/24 14:32, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/10/2024 01:20 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I'm not sure why you're refusing to understand my point here.
Oh, I understand your point, I just think that you're going out of your
way to make your life more difficult than it needs to be. Instead of
keeping
On 03/10/2024 01:20 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I'm not sure why you're refusing to understand my point here.
Oh, I understand your point, I just think that you're going out of your
way to make your life more difficult than it needs to be. Instead of
keeping each forum open on a tab and obses
On 3/10/24 13:32, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
So, I agree with you about the push vs pull factor, so I interact with
discussion.fedoraproject.org via email. 🙂
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/guide-to-interacting-with-this-site-by-email/25960
You can decide what tags you want to 'subscribe' to, it
On 3/10/24 12:58, Joe Zeff wrote:
You only need to have a tab open for a forum when you're actively using
it. Why are you going out of your way to make your life difficult?
I'm not sure why you're refusing to understand my point here.
It's that, in an email list, it's all in one place, and it
Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
Well said. I'm in full agreement.
I see a possibly related condition that also irritates me. The
Balkanization of "email" (quotes deliberate). You want to send an
email message to some company but you don't know their address. You
check their web site and find a page, "sen
On 3/10/24 12:40, Thomas Cameron wrote:
Am I the only one who feels this way? Has the day finally come where I'm
just old and set in my ways? Are there others who prefer mailing lists
to fora?
I agree with all you said. I've been on the Internet a long time. Heck,
anyone remember bang
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 11:40:05AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
>
> Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum to
> discuss a topic or technology, like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/.
>
> Having said that...
>
> I love mailing lists. I have filters set up th
On 2024-03-10 12:40, Thomas Cameron wrote:
Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum to
discuss a topic or technology, like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/.
Having said that...
I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they silently go to the correct
ma
On 03/10/2024 11:14 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I'm not saying that. What I AM saying, is that every time I need to go
to a forum, I have to open a separate tab. It's a pain.
You only need to have a tab open for a forum when you're actively using
it. Why are you going out of your way to make
On 3/10/24 09:40, Thomas Cameron wrote:
Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum
to discuss a topic or technology, like
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/.
Having said that...
I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they silently go to the
correct mail
On 3/10/24 12:04, Joe Zeff wrote:
Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of
them do you actually need to look at each day?
I'm not saying that. What I AM saying, is that every time I need to go
to a forum, I have to open a separate tab. It's a pain.
Also, if I
On 03/10/2024 10:40 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each
forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT.
Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of
them do you actually need to look at each day?
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Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum
to discuss a topic or technology, like
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/.
Having said that...
I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they silently go to the
correct mail folder, I can read through them at my le
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