sorry for bumping this, but, it taking me a few days to get this far in my inbox made me think it's worth adding my voice in to the mix, and say that I'd like something forum-y as well.<div><br></div><div>re: following l-by-email: I haven't done a significant amount of research on this, but my general suspicion is that most forums that scale to large amounts of people wind up having an option to send email notifications about new posts (and the ability to reply to the email to post).</div><div><br></div><div>-Zach<br><br>On Friday, December 11, 2015, Pierre Monod-Broca via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Le 11 déc. 2015 à 00:59, Greg Parker via swift-evolution <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution@swift.org');" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 10, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution@swift.org');" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Can you describe what you like about mailing lists? To me, the lack of proper formatting, lack of control over links, and duplication of content are minuses. IMO, online forums like Discourse do a much better job of keeping topics organized and accessible (plus, you can choose to have notifications sent via email if that's your preferred medium). You can see an example installation at <a href="https://meta.discourse.org/" target="_blank">https://meta.discourse.org/</a></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Advantage: I use my mail client regularly. I don't visit other web forums regularly.</div><div><br></div><div>Email notification can sometimes repair part of the problem, but it doesn't always work. My own StackOverflow participation dropped to zero because they changed their email notification system for the worse.</div><br><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Greg Parker <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gparker@apple.com');" target="_blank">gparker@apple.com</a> Runtime Wrangler</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>The same, and I can use my mail client offline.</div><div><br></div><div>Pierre</div><div><br></div>
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