On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:05 AM Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> Required disclosure: Mailman dev, and my sympathies are with the list > advocates for this channel both for that reason, and for more > objective ones. I don't really argue against a move to Discourse > here, but I do know a bit about the problem space, and I'd like to > discuss *some* aspects here. I expect it's clear which I prefer, but > there are a lot of arguments "for" that I don't deal with. > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes: > >>>>> Gerald B. Cox writes: > > > > Regardless, as I mentioned above, if they have a bug, then it > > > should be reported for them to address. > > > > I wouldn't call it a bug, just bad UX for a minority(?) target > > audience. > > I'm pretty sure the Discourse developers would concede that bad UX for > email users is undesirable. I'm *not* sure they would concede that > it's bad UX. We know how to render HTML to plain text, to RTF, and so > on; Discourse deliberately chose not to do so, but rather chose a > format of their own or perhaps some existing format (this is the first > I've heard of BBcode, so I can't judge). > > Thus, I doubt that reporting an issue against Discourse's email > functionality would get action any time soon from the developers, and > might get a lot of pushback. > Thanks very much for your detailed reply. You summed it up pretty well. As far as the mailing list issue for some email clients I did find this over on the Discourse support forum: https://meta.discourse.org/t/plaintext-and-or-raw-emails-for-mailing-list-mode/74267 Again, I'm far from being an email expert... I'm just a user of it - but people who do have the knowledge might want to take a look and see if this discussion reflects some of their concerns and possibly participate. I don't know if the situation could or could not be improved... but it doesn't hurt to ask.
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