On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 13:31 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 07:12 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org>
> > wrote:
> > ...
> > > That's why the general trend is *away* from email.
> > > 
> > > The Foreman community recently switched away from mailing lists in this
> > 
> > way,
> > > and
> > 
> > https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html
> > > is really interesting and helpful read on the topic for those who might
> > 
> > have
> > > some ... trepidation.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sayin' we are ready to shut this list down, but it's honestly
> > 
> > worth
> > > considering if a different approach will be more effective.
> > 
> > Before the daggers come out.... please take some time to checkout Fedora
> > Discourse
> > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/  and read the Foreman community link
> > above.
> > 
> > As I had previously mentioned, Discourse allows for RSS feeds and email
> > notifications.  It also has a mailing list mode.
> 
> From the foreman post, in the comments:
>     Email interface does not really work, there should be rather called
>     “notifications”. You must visit the site eventually.
> 
> I personally find this a fatal flaw, I do not have time to waste
> visiting slow websites for each project I follow. If I have to switch
> away from my mail client I just end up unfollowing the project unless I
> am focusing specifically on it at that time.
> 
> > It really is a much better solution.
> 
> Better for whom and for what purpose ?
> 
> I am sure it won't be better for me, all "web forums" I ever used made
> for my disappearence from the platform as it was too expensive (time-
> wise) for me to keep up.

Ah nice side-thing I just found out, discussion.fedoraproject.org does
not show *anything* unless I let my browser access this website
http://discourse-cdn-sjc1.com

That doesn't feel right.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc
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