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Introducing Groups.io

10 points by jasondavies 12y ago

walterbell 12y ago
What exactly is "Github integration" with a group - user provisioning? Glad to see the pay-for-privacy business model.
NateDad 12y ago
I find discourse (discourse.org) to be a much better groups replacement than an email list. Email lists are so 1999.
- slgeorge 12y ago
  Why? I primarily find that browser base stuff is inefficient as it doesn't tell me what I've already read, and I have to remember to go a specific site to remember to read new things. Whereas I can subscribe/sort email lists. But then I am so 1999 :-)
  - NateDad 12y ago
    Of course forums tell you what you've already read. What forums have you gone to in the last decade that didn't? Discourse is better because you have more fine grained control - you can have all topics emailed to you, or only ones under a specific tag, or only replies to topics you've posted on. Discourse lets you @tag people and have them notified. Discourse also makes it easy to link topics together, so there's a feature "Reply as new topic" which will start a new topic, but link back to the original so you can read the context. And aside from that - forums are a lot more browseable and searchable. An email list is a linear firehose of posts. A forum can have multiple categories, and makes it easy to flip back and forth between topics. Also, a forum by definition has all the posts online so that anyone can go back and read them. Some mailing list sites record a history online, but because it's not a main way that they are read, it's often only half a step above plaintext, and not at all pleasant to peruse old messages that way. Sure... a lot of this stuff can be done with mailing lists, if you work hard enough at it. But discourse wraps it all up in a nice package, and adds things like automatic trust levels so that you can have community moderation of the forums, without need dedicated people chosen to be moderators approving or disapproving every post.

4 ms·

Introducing Groups.io

10 points by jasondavies 12y ago

walterbell 12y ago
What exactly is "Github integration" with a group - user provisioning? Glad to see the pay-for-privacy business model.
NateDad 12y ago
I find discourse (discourse.org) to be a much better groups replacement than an email list. Email lists are so 1999.
- slgeorge 12y ago
  Why? I primarily find that browser base stuff is inefficient as it doesn't tell me what I've already read, and I have to remember to go a specific site to remember to read new things. Whereas I can subscribe/sort email lists. But then I am so 1999 :-)
  - NateDad 12y ago
    Of course forums tell you what you've already read. What forums have you gone to in the last decade that didn't? Discourse is better because you have more fine grained control - you can have all topics emailed to you, or only ones under a specific tag, or only replies to topics you've posted on. Discourse lets you @tag people and have them notified. Discourse also makes it easy to link topics together, so there's a feature "Reply as new topic" which will start a new topic, but link back to the original so you can read the context. And aside from that - forums are a lot more browseable and searchable. An email list is a linear firehose of posts. A forum can have multiple categories, and makes it easy to flip back and forth between topics. Also, a forum by definition has all the posts online so that anyone can go back and read them. Some mailing list sites record a history online, but because it's not a main way that they are read, it's often only half a step above plaintext, and not at all pleasant to peruse old messages that way. Sure... a lot of this stuff can be done with mailing lists, if you work hard enough at it. But discourse wraps it all up in a nice package, and adds things like automatic trust levels so that you can have community moderation of the forums, without need dedicated people chosen to be moderators approving or disapproving every post.