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> This might age me, but I would like to know what you like about mailing lists compared to the UI of GitHub. Me personally, nothing. This might age me but at
by scrollaway 7y ago
> This might age me, but I would like to know what you like about mailing lists compared to the UI of GitHub.
Me personally, nothing. This might age me but at the time I was requesting this, Github barely had an issue tracker :)
Now it has group discussions which are… better than nothing. And the world moved on to real time chat apps anyway. But I still wish a project by default would get a "forum" which you can send emails to, eg. torvalds.linux@lists.github.io. This is not useful for tiny offshoot projects, but it's super useful for mid-sized open source orgs that would want a discussion/feedback area for users without polluting the issue tracker. With controls for moderation, access, etc. Markdown integration. And so on.
What I mean is, just because it has an email input/output doesn't mean it only has to have that. You can still have nice UIs compatible with well-established protocols.