<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="">Is there any reason why there needs to be a separate tool for this?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If mailing lists are no go why not just stay on GitHub and use GitHub issues for proposals?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Martin</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Feb 2017, at 08:51, Jens Alfke via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:48 PM, Jan Neumüller via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">May I ask why with so many great open source forums that junk Discourse got chosen? I'm very perplexed by this decision...</span><br style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I’ve looked at a lot of forum software, and most of the open-source ones are pretty poor* in terms of UI and usability.</div><div class="">Discourse is very good as a web app, although its email integration doesn’t work that well IMHO, so it’s not really a direct replacement for a mailing list.</div><div class="">If I were proposing something, I’d propose <a href="http://groups.io/" class="">groups.io</a>. (Which is also not open source, sorry.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* I’m being diplomatic. Many of them are worse than poor. The word “wretched” comes to mind.</div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>