<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 14, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Another point that hasn't come up so far: inclusivity.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Quoting the Code of Conduct section from <a href="https://swift.org/community/" class="">https://swift.org/community/</a>:<div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">A diverse and friendly community will have more great ideas, more unique perspectives, and produce more great code. We will work diligently to make the Swift community welcoming to everyone.</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think making the discussion groups more easily accessible, and indexable/searchable, would do a great deal towards this goal. We should strive to include people who don't live in their email clients, and even people who want to contribute anonymously.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Clearly, there are enough people who *do* want to use email that it's important to make sure any proposed solution has good support for email notifications.)</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I don’t understand this argument. Email is a pervasive standard, mailman provides an index, and gmane provides an even better one. How would a web app be “more inclusive" than using something that has been standard for "a long time” and has tons of tools that work with it?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div></body></html>