Le jeudi 23 février 2023 à 22:14 +0000, Wols Lists a écrit : > On 22/02/2023 12:39, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > My offer is open. For the main Discourse server I run, amusingly the > > majority of people use the email interface, no matter how much I > > encourage them to use the nice web interface. [It's a forum devoted to > > harpsichord.] The point is that it runs the web interface and email list > > including digests in parallel, and you can initiate topics by email as > > well. > > > Your "nice web interface" is my "pain in the arse". I much prefer to > work in an off-line manner, using text. I can't work off-line with a web > server.
You can work off-line with the emails that Discourse sends you. In fact, you can interact with Discourse pretty much like you do with a mailing list and never visit the website. > Most web sites (can't speak for Discourse, I've never touched it) are > stuffed full of adverts that often obscure the text I'm interested in. Discourse is free software and does not include adverts. > Many of the websites I interact with on a regular basis (shopping, of > course) have completely broken print interfaces, so bad that one page of > interesting web text will give 20 pages of print with all of the > interesting text missing ... I just tried Ctrl-P on https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-702-marking-deprecations-using-the-type-system/23036 (in Firefox). It gave me a perfectly legible and relatively nicely formatted PDF. > Pretty much EVERY web site I CHOOSE to interact with has its design > ethos stuck in the last century. Discourse might be similar, but I have > absolutely no desire to find out. And the last I heard of discourse (it > sounds like your setup is better) email appeared to be a second class > citizen. For me, interacting with Discourse forums by email works just fine. The only quirk I remember with discuss.python.org is that at some point, it was quoting the whole discussion in every reply, which was annoying. I turned off some option in the preferences and it went away. The other main difference from a mailing list is the linear flow (not threaded). I don't consider this an issue personally, but your mileage may vary. > And of course, the other massive difference between web and email is > that I have to actively visit the website - I've got better things to do > with my time. Email just ends up in my (in this case) lilypond-box for > me to scan as and when I have nothing better to do :-) Again, in my experience, interacting with Discourse by email only works jus fine. > This is only my opinion - other people are free to disagree. There's no > right or wrong, only a whole bunch of lost people who for one reason or > another are unwilling/unable to make the transition. I've had a list > move underneath me - I didn't move with it ... You're free to have your opinion of course, and I'm not saying that Discourse is perfect — it has its issues, like mailing lists have their issues — but most of your fears seem unfounded to me.
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