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Why Email Is the Best Discussion Platform
- thayne 6y ago> To them, email seems like an archaic platform where you can’t embed images, it’s not completely synchronous, and… I honestly couldn’t think of a third thing… > I get it. These platforms are perhaps more inviting because of a friendly UI, inline image, GIF, and emoji support, and it all runs in the browser which is where everything else is seemingly done nowadays. No, you don't get it. I don't care about embedding images and emoji. I can't speak for everyone, but the reasons I prefer something like discourse to email for discussing open source projects are: - mail list archives generally have poor ui that is difficult to search or follow a conversation. - subscription is all or nothing. You can't subscribe to a specific topic. Sure you could set up email filters, but that isn't exactly easy. - link ing to a parallel conversation isn't really possible. Maybe you could link to the archive, but from what I've seen that isn't really done.
- quattrofan 6y agoI don't think anyone has ever said email is hard to use. Slack is great but can be a huge distraction, I will shut it down for long periods of the day.