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I hate mailing lists, even if I recognize some of their benefits. A forum like Discourse is infinitely better in usability - to view, browse, search, follow spe
by zaptheimpaler 1y ago
I hate mailing lists, even if I recognize some of their benefits. A forum like Discourse is infinitely better in usability - to view, browse, search, follow specific threads or forums and mute the rest, do DMs, do real nested replies, embed rich media and code with proper formatting and just have a nice interface to work with. It looks like they even support ActivityPub federation recently. Although its GPL not MIT. I'm sure someone will come and tell me how all of this is doable with some janky interface or hacks on mailing lists. It's just unfortunate we have to choose. The people on mailing lists often argue vigorously for them, the rest of us are on discord/slack and have no idea they even exist and are repulsed by the usability problems. You can't convince me pasting diffs in an email thread is on par with Github/Gitlab code reviews with no downsides whatsoever.
- NooneAtAll3 1y agoI hate the look of Discourse, it looks like the worst case of a phone app and ""modern"" web design I think it's primarily due to absence of margins on the sides and thin borders
- pluto_modadic 1y agothe UI/UX of discord is definitely nice, but the /ethics/ of discord isn't.
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- dewey 1y agoDiscourse not Discord
- pabs3 1y agoI hate Discourse because I can't read it with a local email client.
- AAAAaccountAAAA 1y agoAt least at some point of time it was possible to order Discourse discussions as emails, which you can reply to, and it worked pretty much like a mailing list. Don't know how it is currently, though.
- ValdikSS 1y ago?! Discourse is a "mailing list with the interface". It allows both replies over email and starting a new topic over email.
- pabs3 1y agoDiscourse is a more like a forum with a lip-service email interface tacked on, similar to GitHub or any of the web-generation tools.