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Ubuntu Developers Discuss Abandoning Mailing Lists For Discourse (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Oh no, not Discourse :( I never liked Discourse. I guess mainly for the UI and UX/navigation.

Still likely an improvement for approachability. For a mailing list you essentially need pre-knowledge and a client to use reasonably well. A [Discourse] forum may need an account, but is hosted and straight-forward.

Given that it's already established I see why the question of alternative forms and platforms wouldn't even come up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

A [Discourse] forum may need an account, but is hosted and straight-forward.

Discourse is also working on a Fediverse integration. So at some point you might not even need extra forum accounts.