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While all MUA sucks UI/UX for most web forums even worse - much higher response time, and a lot of mouse clicks for navigation (instead of familiar keyboard sho
by citrin_ru 3y ago
While all MUA sucks UI/UX for most web forums even worse - much higher response time, and a lot of mouse clicks for navigation (instead of familiar keyboard shortcuts). Some sites do support shortcuts but they differ from site to site while with MUA you need to learn them only once for all maillists.
I agree that requirement to subscribe to a maillist is an entry barrier which doesn't exists for web forums but once you're are subscribed it is faster to skim messages in a mailbox.
- citrin_ru 3y agoI wish NNTP was still alive and widely used - it is easier/faster to subscribe to a newsgroup than to a maillist and once you've subscribed you can see old messages in your client and reply to them (not only new messages like with a maillist).
- u801e 3y agoI think people prefer mailing lists over nntp due to a number of reasons: 1. It's easier to set a mailing list up compared to creating a new newsgroup or setting up an on-premise NNTP server (is NNTP as a service even a thing?) 2. Most people have access to email clients (either web based or local applications) compared to NNTP clients. Personally, I think it would be much better if people use NNTP instead of mailing lists, but doing so would require somoene to maintain the NNTP server and handle account creation for posting access.