On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 05:51:33AM +0000, Gerwin Klein wrote:

> As an experience report: we’re using Discourse for seL4 (in addition
> to a mailing list) and I wish we hadn’t started that. The email
> bridge is annoying at best and a web-only solution is a sure way to
> get people in my generation to not bother participating any more.

To be clear: I too will always prefer a well run mailing list to a web
first forum. I just thought it was illogical to mention "last century"
web forums and not discourse.

> I have trouble understanding the appeal of any of these web
> solutions. Why click through lots of pages and put up with bad web
> editors when you could be using an email client that you have
> configured the way you want it?

discourse does have a decent set of keyboard shortcuts. That's why
I can put up with it when necessary while I continue to stay away
from other web forums.

-- 
Ian
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