> In particular I think open source communities should have 1) threaded discussions that are 2) searchable results on google. (for hopefully self evident reason

> In particular I think open source communities should have 1) threaded discussions that are 2) searchable results on google. (for hopefully self evident reasons) So mailing lists then? OSS communities have been using them for years, they even have offline browsing and offline search. There are a number of user interfaces available from online ones like google groups or gmail, desktop readers, terminal apps and even editor plugins.