Matt Harris|Infrastructure Lead 816-256-5446|Direct Looking for something? Helpdesk Portal|Email Support|Billing Portal We build and deliver end-to-end IT solutions. On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:34 AM Noah <n...@neo.co.tz> wrote:
> > Well baby boomers & gen-x will struggle to dump mail...I mean it simple > and just works. > > We were trying to get a community of newbie techies mostly millennials & > gen-z to actively engage on a list we subscribed them too for the past 2 > years and believe me, I can count no more than 10 posts mainly from we few > mailing list folk... > > When we requested for feedback, them gen-z cried out loud for interactions > to happen on some social media app through groups or channels, and since > they are the target audience and the majority, we settled for discord and > telegram which they actively engage on :-). > > We still maintain the mailing list though and most announcement are done > via it but things are changing hey.... > I'm a gen-x guy myself, but I've gotten into discord largely as a replacement for IRC as it's declined over the past decade and a half and there are some actual good communities on there at this point. There's actually a very good network engineering discord group, even. I definitely don't care for web-based forums personally, and like many other folks, I don't even have a facebook account. Email lists are extremely accessible as they don't require any third-party accounts, and there's a lot of transparency in terms of how you'll be exposed - that is, your email address/headers and the content of your messages may end up public, but no one's harvesting all of your web visits via intrusive cookies and such. - Matt
