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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19.01.24 10:32, Adam Nielsen wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Interesting, it looks like the archive hasn't been fully indexed.
Point taken. However I will also point out that most forum software
I've used has an awful search as well (usually I resort to Google) so
I'm not sure whether Discourse is any better.
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Discourse provides sitemap.xml and it is full of search engine
optimisations. The integrated search is definitely at least as good
as a non-fuzzy full-text search on a mail archive.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">A forum also makes it possible for someone to continue a thread from x
years ago with new related questions or information. Something that is
really hard to do on a mailing list from what I know.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Most forums frown on "necro-posting" like that because it's often
misused and reopens a completed discussion with something barely
related (and forces everyone to re-read a bunch of long forgotten posts
to get the context), so I'm not so sure that's a positive.
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<p>I never understood forums with blanket rules based on the age of
previous posts. Keeping related information and discussion
together is a good thing in my experience. I mean actual on-topic
posts, not people posting only slightly related things or jumping
into old, solved problem-solving threads with changed scenarios.<br>
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<p>The good thing is that no one is forced to read previous posts
but in a forum they easily can do so and continue.<br>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">Cheers, Hannes
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