Re: [UG-ADMINS] What about making this list public on https://www.mail-archive.com/

Hi Gordon.

Am 30.01.16 um 20:36 schrieb Gordon Forsythe:
> Not to derail the conversation as a noob to the group, but is a mailing
> list the best thing to even use anymore?  I'm not saying to use a slack
> channel, because that's not a realistic solution for threaded discussions
> (more on that in a bit).  Also, I don't want to start a flame war on this,
> just throwing out a few thoughts.  If everyone likes an email list, no
> worries.
> 
> I mainly bring this up because now that Jeremy's helping out with my group,
> I needed to set up something for our organizers/admins to use (since
> there's now more than one).  Personally, I'm not a fan of mailing lists as
> I don't feel they're very good for social interaction and it's too easy to
> lose information along the way in a thread (and same for "chat" apps like
> slack since there are no real threads at all).  The mailing list I've had
> for azPHP for years is pretty much dead now and 99% of our current
> interaction is in a facebook group.  Even a crappy forum would be better
> than an email list IMO.

The main difference between a forum and an Email-List is whether you
have to pull the information or get the information pushed. Personally I
want to get information pushed as I then can check whether they are
relevant for me or not. If I have to pull the information... - I won't
do it. Too much work if I'm not 100% interested!

And by the way, there is also a third system that was build exactly for
threaded discussions: Newsgroups. It might be considered old-school but
it's (in my eyes) exactly the thing bridging the gap between
Mailing-List and Forum. There's a news-implementation on news.php.net
that is worth considering a look! Nice threaded view even though it's a
mailing-list ;)

> 
> A few free options I'm currently playing with:
> 
> * Glip - Relatively simple and intuitive.  Unfortunately making a team with
> this only allows one person to be the administrator for a team. This
> product has tasks & calendar integration, which gives it an edge up on
> slack.  The interesting thing about glip is you only ever need one
> account.  You can create multiple teams and add other users as either
> guests or co-workers.
> * Ryver - Full disclosure: I worked at Contatta, which is what Ryver came
> from after they ripped 2/3 of the functionality we had built out of it
> (used to have tasks, calendar, and be an actual email client).  I no longer
> work there, but what they've built is a step up from slack in that you can
> actually make threaded discussions by making a "Post" and commenting on
> it.  You can also reply to other comments.
> 
> If anyone has any other options, I'd love to hear them.  A google group
> would probably be fine, but it's still pretty much just email.
> 
>   Gordon
> 
Just for the record: We created a private channel in the
phpug-slack-team for the organizers of our usergroup (phpugffm) and I've
seen some other groups do that as well.

Cheers

Andreas


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