* On 2022 21 Oct 02:22 -0500, wwp via mc wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> well, now users (us) will have to go search for services (forum) instead of
> getting service delivered at home (ML), that's definitely a different
> approach and no real way to customize the delivery of such service.

I agree.  I dislike Discourse but now if I want to follow the old GTK
mailing list I have to login there.  What really turns me off on it is
the automatic locking of topics after a very short time (two weeks?)
which is ridiculous as sometimes it takes much longer for an issue to
resurface and get resolved.  Then a user is left with having to start a
new thread and hope that readers will follow a link to the locked thread
for context.  The conversation becomes quite disjointed and nearly
useless.

My experience with Discourse between two projects is that it is pandering
and rather childish with the meaningless awards and congratulations it
generates.  It's really quite an annoying thing.

> I don't clearly see the point in doing this, instead. of course,
> because of trying to tie everyone into clicks and monetization, what
> the web has now become. Emails are free and free of such monetization,
> the current web cannot allow this to keep going (see what Google did
> to emails).  People I talked about this major turn around me are just
> disgusted and don't really want to run into web forums and live in a
> web browser.  Prepare to see the audience being really different since
> now!

IIUC, this list was set up under the GNOME umbrella many years ago as
the main developer then was one of the founders of GNOME.  Midnight
Commander has about zero to do with GNOME these days and other than this
list being hosted on GNOME servers, it seems to be an independent
project.  The best would be if an email host could be found to take over
this very low traffic but essential list.

- Nate

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