* Posts can use Markdown for rich formatting.
* Real time updates to the topic being viewed as new posts are made.
* A bit of GitHub integration
* Multiple categories on one site vs. 2 separate and distinct groups
* Easy searching across categories, or within one category, or within one topic
* It has a maillist mode, although I haven't tried that yet.
* Easy LnF and feature customization per site or per user
* trust levels, groups and security
* notifications
* good UI and interaction on mobile
As you can see if you visit the site, I've imported the posts from wxPython-users and wxPython-dev (as of a few days ago.) The reformatting of the messages sometimes wasn't great, but as far as I can tell the content and attachments all made it in okay. There was almost 109,000 messages imported, going back 20 years!
As part of the import user accounts were created for all sender email addresses, but in a "staged" state. This means that if you go through the normal sign-up on the site with the email you used to post to wxPython-users or wxPython-dev, then it will automatically associate your account with your existing messages. If you don't like the automatically assigned username then you can change that in your preferences.
I'm not 100% sure yet if we'll switch exclusively to the forum for group communications, I'd like to get some feedback first. But I like it so far.
Oh, yeah... It's written in Ruby, but we won't hold that against them.
Yep, and I used to be firmly in that camp as well. But for the past couple years I found that having and RSS feed to check on for new messages was more convenient since I was already using RSS for other things and I spend more time in my browser than in my email client now. And then when I saw that Discourse has an option for “mailing list mode” I felt like it might be worth the change since it can be used in whichever way the user likes best. You can file the mailing list mode option in your account preferences on the discuss site.
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On Friday, July 19, 2019 at 3:31:53 PM UTC-7, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 08:03:45PM -0700, Robin Dunn wrote:
I’m not 100% sure yet if we’ll switch exclusively to the forum for group
On Friday, July 19, 2019 at 3:31:53 PM UTC-7, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 08:03:45PM -0700, Robin Dunn wrote:
I’m not 100% sure yet if we’ll switch exclusively to the forum for group
communications,
A forum is “pull” while a mailing list is “push”.
That’s the one main drawback of forums.
Yep, and I used to be firmly in that camp as well. But for the past couple years I found that having and RSS feed to check on for new messages was more convenient since I was already using RSS for other things and I spend more time in my browser than in my email client now. And then when I saw that Discourse has an option for “mailing list mode” I felt like it might be worth the change since it can be used in whichever way the user likes best. You can file the mailing list mode option in your account preferences on the discuss site.
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