Hi, First off, apologies for not being active here for a number of months now. Last year has been a very busy and stressful year for me and I was barely able to keep up with work from the commercial side. I hope I'll be more active now that I'm a little more on top of things :)
That said, I want to hear your thoughts about possibly moving to a forum software for the community discussions. I like mailing lists, but I have two major gripes with them: 1) Formatting and threading. Most email clients use HTML emails and have different formatting quoting styles. Then there's those corporate email footers with a wall of text and logos! Worse yet, some email clients don't handle threading properly. All that may not be a deal breaker during the conversation, but it doesn't help make the email archive into a good reference for future readers. These issues can be *partially* mitigated by enforcing plain-text in Mailman (the mailing list software), stripping attachments, and generally being anal about posting rules. 2) This may not be a problem per-se, and maybe it's just me, but IMO email is best for thorough and complete responses while in a forum a back and forth exchange of short messages is perfectly okay. With email, after a few exchanges you end up with a deeply nested thread and the quoted text becomes an unreadable mess. With regards to the forum software of choice, I really like Flarum. However, Discourse, which I also like, offers a hosted version and that is a big plus for me as I'd rather not deal with maintenance and upgrades. I went ahead and started a trial with Discourse. It's available at forum.genieacs.com. Feel free to sign up and give it a spin. -- Zaid Abdulla <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.genieacs.com/mailman/listinfo/users
