On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 7:26 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 11:39 +0000, Barry Scott wrote:
> >
> > > On 13 Nov 2023, at 11:01, Patrick O'Callaghan
> > > <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > AFAIK it's Discourse, not Discuss (or Discord). I say this only
> > > because
> > > the official Evolution support has moved to that platform along
> > > with a
> > > lot of other Gnome stuff.
> >
> > You are right the software is Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/)
> > and web sites often use discuss.<domain>.
> >
> > Fedora uses discussion.fedoraproject.org
> > <http://discussion.fedoraproject.org/>
> > KDE uses discuss.kde.org
> > Python uses discuss.python.org <http://discuss.python.org/>
> >
> > Personally I prefer discourse to email for its markup and editing
> > capabilities.
>
> I dislike it because a) it requires a browser (I know you can interact
> with it via email, but that's genuinely terrible, and b) discussions
> disappear after a time rather than being permanently available.

Yeah, things were a lot better with mailing lists. You did not have to
join a social media site, you weren't the product, and search engines
could index the messages and subsequently return them in search
results. Nowadays it's difficult to find things.

> I could go on, but I don't want to hijack this thread.

You can't put that genie back in the bottle :)

Jeff
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