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[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

Not true if you quote something via the web interface. See my quote here:
http://discourse.natecook.com/t/pitch-add-dark-mode-to-swift/3051


On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:03 PM Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> on Thu Jan 26 2017, Nate Cook <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> > ✋
> >
> > I forged the mighty, turgid rivers of rubyenv, hand-tweaked gem
> > dependencies, and sed-cleaned mbox files to try this out—you can see
> > the results of an import (using one or two day old data) at this
> > address:
> >       http://discourse.natecook.com/
> >
> > It looks like the threads were handled properly, though they bear some
> > obvious marks of their mailing list origins. Users can actually claim
> > their accounts if they do a password reset. However:
> >       - it's hooked up to a trial SendGrid account, which will top out
> at 100 emails/day
> >       - I should probably delete this soon so Google doesn't think it's
> the real deal
>
> It's a shame that it has no facility for hiding long quotations.  Trying
> to find the actual content in this thread is pretty awful:
> http://discourse.natecook.com/t/strings-in-swift-4/2980/13
>
> Once upon a time, there was a tradition of carefully crafting the
> presentation of replies to mailing lists
> <http://www.slack.net/~ant/usenet-posts.html#replying> but I fear those
> days may be behind us.
>
> > I might have mentioned this before, but I'm strongly in favor of
> > forum-based solution over the mailing list (at least for this group),
> > and Discourse seems to be the best one running right now (and fairly
> > open to extension and customization). I made a new topic here to
> > demonstrate a couple features (code blocks and inline images):
> >       http://discourse.natecook.com/t/pitch-add-dark-mode-to-swift/3051
>
> That said, I too am strongly in favor of moving to Discourse.
>
> --
> -Dave
>
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