Hi Richard,
Is there a solution in the pipeline for the inaccessible captcha in the
forum for visually impaired users? I brought this up when the forum was
first released and you kindly created an account manually for me, but it
doesn't seem as though the problem was actually solved in the system
itself. I just tried to create an account on the SqLite forum, but could
not. The absolute majority of captcha systems offer some kind of audio
version now, which is very important for me and other blind users.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
On 3/13/2020 4:22 PM, Richard Hipp wrote:
On 3/13/20, Huỳnh Trần Khanh <qcdz9r6wpcbh59+subscripti...@gmail.com> wrote:
[On a mailing nlist] I can
filter the posts, sort them, search through them, archive them,
forward them to a friend, &c.
You can do all of that with the SQLite Forum. Remember, all content
is still delivered directly to your in-box, just like with a mailing
list, so anything you can do with content received from a mailing list
can also be done with content from the forum. But there are many
things that the forum provides that a mailing list does now. For
example, if you want an archive of the forum activity, you can clone
the entire history with one command:
fossil clone https://sqlite.org/forum sqlite-forum.fossil
Then periodically "sync" to keep your private archive up-to-date. Now
you have all historical content, neatly packaged in an SQL database.
You can extract and search and manage the content in this archive in
any way you want.
The only thing that you can do with a mailing list that the SQLite
Forum does not allow is to submit new postings via email. You must
use the web interface in order to post a message. In my experience,
this forces people to take a little extra time to think about what
they are saying, and to format and arrange their thoughts for clarity,
and hence results in a better experience for the readers.
There are other important features that the forum provides that
mailinglists typically do not:
1. You can format your postings using Markdown
2. You can add hyperlinks to your postings that are consistently
displayed and are not dependent on the idiosyncrasies of various email
clients.
3. You can edit prior posts to fix typos or mistakes.
4. Your email address is never displayed, even to subscribers.
5. It is much easier to contribute anonymously to a web-based forum
than it is to contribute on a mailing list. There is no verification
process to go through. You just type in what you want to say and
press "Submit".
6. Moderators have much better control over spam and other malicious content.
The first point (use of Markdown) is the killer feature for me. There
was a recent thread on this mailing list that involved people posting
EXPLAIN output. That text gets hopelessly jumbled on most email
readers. If those messages had been formatted with Markdown, they
would have been much easier to read and understand.
I've been using both this mailing list and the Forum on Fossil
regularly for two years now. The forum is so much nicer that I have
come to dread having to work with the legacy mailing list, at least
for complex subjects. It is time for a switch to better technology.
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