On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 3:42 PM Steven Barker <blckkn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So last night I tried activating mailing list mode [...] > To follow up on my own post, here's an update. I figured out that I'd done something incorrectly the first time I tried muting certain categories of posts on Discourse. I think I just failed to save my choices in the settings screen, and I got it right the second time I tried. The firehose was tamed to a reasonable rate of flow. I do still think that experience is much worse than signing up for just the python-dev mailing list. While excluding the Users (now Python Help), Ideas and Packaging categories has cut out most of the stuff I don't care about, there are a lot of low-volume categories that I probably don't care about either, but I don't know enough about them to tell. I'd rather be able to opt-in to categories I want instead of opting out to everything I don't want. I have low confidence in my understanding of Discourse settings, but I don't currently believe that setting a category as Watched does the same thing as mailing list mode, for that category only, but I could be wrong (I've not tried it). I don't want summary emails, and that seems to be the only thing on offer. And there isn't a generalized Dev category that covers the range of topics that the python-dev mailing list does. So to give my final takeaway: It might be possible for Discourse to replace Python-dev, even for those who wish to get their messages by email. But the user experience of signing up is vastly worse, and will need much more than a single paragraph in the dev-guide for most people to have a satisfying experience with mailing list mode (or some other mode that I don't yet know how to use).
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