Speaking up as one of the silent majority on this topic, now that
it's mentioned, as I think I have two cents to add.
Silent majority?
I always thought and still think the Email prefering fraction to be the
silent majority. But that's just my personal feeling and I do not have
data to base this claim on.
I looked up the other list that moved to Discourse (I think they had the
same Discourse/Discord confusion), but I remember that being sold
strongly on the web interface. I was certainly left with the very strong
impression email was a second class citizen.
If discourse works well with email, that would presumably allay Omid's
fears?
I have yet to see a discourse setup that works well with email.
Discourse seems to be better than phpBB or similar but that's not
difficult and hardly something to be proud of.
All the claims I've seen w/r to usability of web based interfaces being
better than email IMO basically show that mail clients are
insufficiently or not properly setup respectively used.
FWIW I'm very happy that lilypond-users is email based. It is both my
highest volume and at the same time most productive community.
I dearly hope that it stays that way.
My 0.02€
Michael
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