On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 8:58 PM Solomon Peachy via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 07:21:54PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > Hi Matthew, you say: "We're missing people", and I think, "who?". > > And who are you going to miss if you move to discourse? > > Again and again I have seen this "we're missing people" sentiment be > used to justify scrapping "old" workflows, and *not once* has it ever > resulted in "more people" coming out of the woodwork that would have > happily contributed in the past, but were turned off/away by the need to > use archaic email. > > (FFS, If we're going to follow this to its logical conclusion, we should > just scrap all of this email/discourse/whatever and just move > everything to github, or even facebook, as that's clearly where the > most numbers of people are. "but no, our custom tooling makes things > better for us" is the inevitable pushback, which arguably applies just > as much to email-based flows!) > > > The mailing list make messages land in my client, on which I am very > > efficient, therefore I can check all messages once a day, and respond > > if I find a worthy topic. > > ...and the very nature of Discourse or various other Forums pretty much > make this sort of workflow impossible; that is to say you're all but > forced to manually poll every site you care about in a way that all but > makes automation impossible. > > ... snip ... Although I rarely participate, I do read just about everything. And I have to completely agree with Solomon's response. Moving to a forum based tool will a) have the opposite effect expected, and b) make it harder to follow because of the effort required to be notified, scan and read messages. - email is push, not poll; so it consumes much less time and bandwidth - email allows 'notification-scan-respond/delete' in basically one (or two) clicks in ~3 seconds of elapsed time (for 'n' messages/topics) Can you say the same for Discourse?
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