On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 2:53:22 PM EDT ned+dm...@mrochek.com wrote: > > In article <caba8r6s2jgafwhcfxwg7bjubfa_mbv9xmjqpcpsgjnrhnds...@mail.gmail.com> you write: > > >I for one am always amazed how much people use web forums, which are > > >almost > > >all universally worse at providing a reading interface or keeping people > > >up-to-date on new messages... which might be why most of the one's I look > > >at are nearly dead, maybe there are better ones that are active. > > > > Well, there's Reddit, and um, er. Flyertalk, I guess. > > > > One thing web forum fans seem to miss is how poorly they scale. I > > subscribe to at least 150 mailing lists, most of which are only active > > occasionally. As mailing lists, that works fine. The busier ones go > > into separate folders, less busy into a general folder, and MUAs tell > > me which folders have new messages so I can scan through all of my > > list mail about as fast as I can hit the tab key to move on to the > > next message. This works equally well for public and private lists. > > > > In theory RSS or Atom does this for web forums, in practice, it's > > amazing how lousy their RSS support is and how lame RSS readers are > > for public fora, and hopeless for private ones where you have to log in. > > And that assumes the site supports RSS/Atom. Many don't. > > The other problem with all of these tools is that someone else gets to > decide how to organize your life. If you decide that two different fora > should be grouped together, good luck getting your reader to do that for > you. > > But Slack is the true nadir of usability in this regard. I have dozens of > channels I need to monitor, the breakdown of same is not remotely aligned > with how I would prefer to consume them. Add in a complete crap UI, and I > honestly can't think of a mail UI I've used that's worse. Not ever.
It's like someone took IRC and decided to actively worsen it. Scott K _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
