Re: discourse forum test

Yup, the "threaded view" thing is discussed extensively (ad nauseam...) in
the discourse community by the looks of it. There's a decent discussion of
the reasoning here:
https://community.lsst.org/t/understanding-and-using-discourses-flat-threading/150
(none of that gets you a traditional multi-level-tree threaded view,
though...)

Yes, if someone writes on the forum it goes to the list. I don't have this
enabled with the "real" sc-users/sc-dev lists, lest they get flooded with
test messages or spambots. However, if you watch a category/topic on
discourse, or turn on mailing list mode (which sends all messages from
non-muted categories), you'll get any messages (forum or email based) in
that topic/category. if you log in now and post a new topic (and you have
email notifications set up), I believe you'll get all replies to that topic
send to you, and you can in turn reply via email.

Among other things: this means you can log in to discourse directly with
e.g. a github identity and post a question to the list, without having to
deal with subscribing or a flood of messages until your question is
answered.





On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> What I'm missing in discourse is a sensible thread display. I've
> recognized there's a button on the top right that opens the message the
> current one was written in reply to but still I find that confusing. I
> usually let messages get displayed in the mailinglist in thread view
> which makes it convenient to follow a certain topic or issue. Discourse
> doesn't provide that?
>
> Furthermore: If someone writes in the forum, does that message appear on
> the mailinglist as well? (so far I could only see that messages I wrote
> to the mailinglist appear in the discourse forum).
>
> just my 2c
>
> Stefan
>
> Am 2018-02-21 um 19:55 schrieb julian.rohrhuber-QYZGCWsIODmAF8UT6DzBU6xOck334EZe@public.gmane.org:
> > It’s definitely an excellent archive. I still prefer to be able to read
> stuff offline, and I suppose that isn’t easy with discourse, ist it?
> >
> >> On 21.02.2018, at 00:36, scott-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected] wrote:
> >>
> >> The result of linking the mailing list to the discourse list is nice -
> long threads are picked up well, and navigation and usage is pretty snappy.
> For example:
> >>
> >>
> http://165.227.5.128/t/sc-users-tracking-synth-nodes-handling-polyphony-take-2/47/8
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:51 AM Scott Carver <scott-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Slow meaning the web interface? Or slow meaning the backend?
> >>
> >> As a point of comparison, the lines forum (https://llllllll.co) is in
> our ballpark in terms of scale (10k messages - I count ~5k for the last 5
> years of sc-users, so maybe 3x that for our entire history. they have 1k
> active users, probably more than us). They sometimes struggle with storage
> issues, but the site is snappy.
> >>
> >> I discovered it's possible to use github/google/facebook/etc to
> authenticate, so people can post without doing the majordomo dance and
> without flooding their inbox. Enabled GitHub and Google  - GH works great
> (Google doesn't like authing to an ip address).
> >>
> >> Incidentally, the sc-dev/sc-users mailing list authorization links sent
> in emails are currently non-functional - the only way to confirm is via a
> manual reply? I forget who manages the list these days?
> >>
> >> - S
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:05 AM <julian.rohrhuber-QYZGCWsIODmAF8UT6DzBU6xOck334EZe@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> >> We’ve been using discourse for a year now in the university. It is
> really good for handling forum like things. But it is really slow, it is
> much more fun to write an email than an entry in discourse.
> >>
> >> The mirroring idea is nice.
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 16.02.2018, at 08:52, scott-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected] wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I've been messing around a little with discourse (the open source
> forum / mailing list backend). Specifically, I've been wondering if it
> could provide a replacement + upgrade for the mailing lists and nabble
> workflows as they are now. I'm not really *proposing* a replacement, as
> much as simply experimenting with that might look like. Feel free to mess
> around / create an account / etc. Don't post anything important, since I
> may take this down.
> >>>
> >>> The address is:
> >>> http://165.227.5.128/
> >>>
> >>> A couple notes and thoughts:
> >>>
> >>> - In your user Preferences -> Emails, you can enable mailing list mode
> to make the entire forum behave like a traditional email list (you can
> reply to posts by email, and create threads by sending to
> sc-test-dev-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected] or sc-test-users-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected]).
> >>>
> >>> - I think I've got both mailing lists mirroring as categories on the
> forum. They're non-interactive (you can't reply), but I'm curious how the
> mirroring turns out.
> >>>
> >>> - The functionality around categories, user groups, notification and
> muting seems very awesome, and could be a big benefit for the kinds of
> sprawling discussions on sc-users/sc-dev
> >>>
> >>> - Code highlighting appears to work fine. I don't think it recognizes
> sclang specifically, but it does an okay job nonetheless.
> >>>
> >>> - Categories for "users" and "developers" (or embedded users, tidal
> users, etc etc) are more permeable than with two separate mailing lists.
> Threads can be moved if another category is more appropriate, and searches
> can easily cover both/all.
> >>>
> >>> - You can create wiki-editable posts? Seems interesting?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
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