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> The new platform offers way more features than Mailman, including gamification which newer generations, in general, appreciate, GNOME is a parody of itself.
by lupire 4y ago
> The new platform offers way more features than Mailman, including gamification which newer generations, in general, appreciate,
GNOME is a parody of itself.
- unethical_ban 4y agoI assume that means things like emojis/upvotes, slashdot style streaks and awards for participating. I'm sure I could look it up. Why be hostile to Gnome when they're far from the first to dump mailman, and far from the first to use Discourse?
- kkfx 4y agoGNOME is formally a FLOSS project, but in reality a managerial-drive Open Source project, a way to elict free works for contributors for the sake of a company business... Mailing lists are hard not much because mails layer too many tech but because people do not know them anymore due to the big push toward web crapplications, a push choosed for commercial purposes. As a result instead of being on a decentralized infra we end up in centralized ones, get too much overhead than switch to some giant cloud services. Unfortunately it's not only "generic people" (CL/UL in the Simon's BOFH tails terms) but also technicians who tend "in crowd" to behave as any other "crowd" by Gustave Le Bon...
- manuelabeledo 4y agoIt might be, but not because of this. Even GitHub is gamified in a way. I don't understand the issue with it. Badges, achievements, progress dashboards, etc. are mostly fine, and have been around for decades in multiple flavours and platforms.