<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 Jan 26, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Nate Cook via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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:</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://discourse.natecook.com/" class="">http://discourse.natecook.com/</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>Thanks, Nate, for setting this up. I’ve never played with discourse before, but this allowed me to spend some time with it in the context of swift-evolution.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My first impression, based perhaps on not being familiar with it, was that it didn’t add much to the mailing list experience. The top-level list of threads is good. However, once within a thread, I distinctly found the experience (<a href="http://discourse.natecook.com/t/strings-in-swift-4/2980/" class="">http://discourse.natecook.com/t/strings-in-swift-4/2980/</a>, as Dave mentioned) to be sub-par to what I’m used to with my mail client. It was a confounding blob of content. Are there plug-ins to provide an index to posts within a thread? (the magic J and K keys that Nate just mentioned might would help some, but still require a heck-of-a-lot of scrolling to find stuff). The ability to persistently collapse posts would seem key as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since many will likely want to continue to access the discussion via mail, I have some questions for anybody who actually has real-life experience in using Discourse primarily via email:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Can one sign up to receive all posts within a project via email? Or does one need to sign up for email on a thread-by-thread basis?</div><div class="">2. Can one receive email notifications of new threads?</div><div class="">3. How does one create a new thread via email? (presumably just by sending an email with a new subject, ala mailing list?)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Based on my (limited, non-subscriber-to-discourse) experience so far, I would vote for the status quo, perhaps based on years of using mailing lists via email. But I’m trying to be open minded.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">James</div></body></html>