Re: Switching to Discourse

On 15. 07. 22 16:24, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     The discuss.python.org <http://discuss.python.org> experiment has
>     been going on for quite a while,
>     and while the platform is not without its issues, we consider it a
>     success. The Core Development category is busier than python-dev.
>     According to staff, discuss.python.org <http://discuss.python.org>
>     is much easier to moderate.. If
>     you're following python-dev but not discuss.python.org
>     <http://discuss.python.org>, you're missing out.
> 
> Personally, I think you are focused too narrowly and aren't seeing the 
> forest for the trees. Email protocols were long ago standardized. As a 
> result, people can use any of a large number of applications to read and 
> organize their email. To my knowledge, there is no standardization 
> amongst the various forum tools out there. I'm not suggesting discuss is 
> necessarily better or worse than other (often not open source) forum 
> tools, but each one implements its own walled garden. I'm referring more 
> broadly than just Python, or even Python development, though even within 
> the Python community it's now difficult to manage/monitor all the 
> various discussion sources (email, discuss, GitHub, Stack Overflow, ...)
> 
> Get off my lawn! ;-)
> 
> Skip, kinda glad he's retired now...


And that's exactly why I consume Discourse in mailing list mode, with 
client-side filtering in Thunderbird.
I do go to the site to post though. Tthat's possible by e-mail, but the 
lack of standardization in reply/quoting styles and  makes it hard for 
Discourse to format e-mail replies nicely. (Traditional clients aren't 
perfect at that either, TBH.)


– Petr (not on behalf of any group)


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