Re: [talk-au] topic A: the platform itself

2019-10-02 Thread Simon Slater
On Friday, 20 September 2019 5:03:10 PM AEST David Wales wrote: > If the number of talk-au emails reaches overwhelming levels, it might be > necessary to investigate other solutions. However, I don't think we have > reached that point yet. In that case, a digest option is good. I get a list of

Re: [talk-au] topic A: the platform itself

2019-09-20 Thread Sebastian S.
Hello, I think it is important to be precise in the language we use. Therefore I'd like to point out that this is a mailing list and not a forum. If you find the UI poor then this likely due to the way you use the mailing list. Browsing the archives on the list website is not how I

Re: [talk-au] topic A: the platform itself

2019-09-20 Thread Marc Gemis
Please allow me to share some experiences of moving to another platform we had in our community. In Belgium we moved from the mailing list to Matrix/Riot . Most active participants in the community made the move, but in the process we lost some people Matrix/Riot is good for short questions, but

Re: [talk-au] topic A: the platform itself

2019-09-20 Thread Edoardo Neerhut
Thanks for bringing this up Herbert. *Similar sentiments* This has actually been bothering me the last few weeks as I started to realise how much of my day is spent reading through talklists that do not have relevance to me or that I do not have time to respond to. For those of us subscribed to

Re: [talk-au] topic A: the platform itself

2019-09-20 Thread David Wales
I am a member of some international OSM Slack channels. However, because it requires a whole different app (which I only have space for on my computer), I only check it monthly at best. On the other hand, I read every talk-au message within a few days of original posting, because they all

Re: [talk-au] topic A: the platform itself

2019-09-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 9/20/19 03:14, Herbert.Remi via Talk-au wrote: > I will post several concerns and information on several issues, but the > first is this platform itself. You call this platform a "forum" which is ok in the abstract sense, but note that there is actually an Australia forum in addition to