[Chris Angelico] > With emails, you get your choice of tools. With web forum systems, you > get the forum host's choice of tools.
There are many 3rd party tools for interacting with Reddit. It's all just data behind an API. There's no reason you couldn't have a choice of tools for a forum system. The biggest difference I see is that email APIs are more standardized. Maybe we should push for an open standard for forum-style communication. On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 5:03 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 10:00 AM Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > [Steven D'Aprano] > >> > >> The bottom line is that email can be sorted, filtered, shuffled, sliced > >> and diced in an almost infinite number of ways. If your email client > >> isn't good enough, blame the tool, not the technology. > > > > > > There's no reason a forum system couldn't accommodate sorting, > filtering, shuffling, slicing and dicing. > > It seems the only problem is the lack of tools. > > With emails, you get your choice of tools. With web forum systems, you > get the forum host's choice of tools. > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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