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Mailing lists will always be king. I don't get it either, Discord is proprietary, hosting your OSS project's infrastructure there just seems... idiotic.
by SCSIfloppy 3y ago
Mailing lists will always be king. I don't get it either, Discord is proprietary, hosting your OSS project's infrastructure there just seems... idiotic.
- kyawzazaw 3y agoIt's for the community discussion.
- SCSIfloppy 3y agoPrivate nntp server could handle this quite easily, and today mailing list managers have web views with threading.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoI'm sad that Hyperkitty, which is in all other respects a good piece of mailing list archive software, lacks a threading view. Now that most FOSS mailing lists have started using it, I've lost one of the main productivity benefits of them compared to linear discussions like chatrooms. If it's important for me to follow a discussion in detail, I will try to download the emails to open with Mutt, which can be easily configured to use a threaded view.
- kyawzazaw 3y agoi am sure it can but that's just another friction