How about self-hosted forums? like vbulletin? VB allows you to subscribe to forums or threads and I think you can reply via email also. I would imagine the problem being hosting.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Guido Medina <oxyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I forgot to mention that the Gitter interface uses your Github user as > login and allows you to reference PR and ping Github users. > It is similar to Slack, but IMHO it is better designed for code and of > course much better integration with Github. > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Guido Medina <oxyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There is also Gitter for chat like interfaces iterations, provided by > > GitHub, examples: > > > > https://gitter.im/akka/dev > > https://gitter.im/akka/akka > > > > Can ping Github users, and I believe is free for OpenSource projects. > > > > Just giving you ideas. > > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Guido Medina <oxyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I didn't know about that, I only find very unpractical the e-mail > >> practices, I myself have no social media accounts anywhere. > >> But I found Google groups to be extremely easy to use and very > practical, > >> specially in the matter of not receiving e-mails. > >> > >> That's why I suggested it, but I do understand your concern. > >> > >> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com > > > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> Le 30/08/2017 à 16:30, Guido Medina a écrit : > >>> > Google forums are nice for that, I don't like the old way of handling > >>> > forums TBH i.e.: e-mails, > >>> > Google forums also have nice code formatting, friendly search > >>> capability, > >>> > etc. > >>> > >>> Certainly not. This is the 'best' way to fragment the community : > >>> creating mailing list/discussion group on whatever social media one > >>> would like. Plus we have no visibility about when private companies > like > >>> Google will decide to brutally discontinue the server - as they already > >>> did many times in the past -, losing all the history at the same time. > >>> > >>> I'd rather split the existing list into a SSHd list, a FTPServer list, > a > >>> MINA list, etc. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Emmanuel Lecharny > >>> > >>> Symas.com > >>> directory.apache.org > >>> > >>> > >> > > >
