> There's just no reason to use a mailing list when forums, chats, pull requests and issue trackers exist. One thing that modern tools lack that classic tools

> There's just no reason to use a mailing list when forums, chats, pull requests and issue trackers exist. One thing that modern tools lack that classic tools had was an index view that allowed you to quickly navigate to the comment/message you wanted to read. They also lack an easy marker to show whether you have already read the message. Both of these features were in the email and new client I used in the mid to late '90s. These features are missing in forums, chats, pull requests, and issue trackers that I have to use today, so I end up having to navigate to pages to see whether they've been updated and I have to spend a lot of time scrolling to find the update within the page. > They're clunky and hard to use and terrible UX compared to the alternatives. Having to repeatedly check the same page and scroll a lot to even find what one is looking for is a lot more clunky and more difficult to use compared to the classic interfaces available a quarter century ago.