[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] Announce - migrate our mailing lists to Discourse

[Vincent Schut]

On 4/4/24 02:29, Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Wed, 03. Apr 2024 at 18:23:47 -0400, Greg Troxel via QGIS-User wrote:
>> People like me tend not to be happy about things turning into forums and are
>> likely to participate less.  As an example, openstreetmap moved from
>> mailinglists to forums and I have not, so I interract far far less and spend
>> more time on other things.  I am probably somewhat unusual (started doing
>> email in the 70s), and here probably only strk thinks I"m normal :-)
> Just for the record: I also don't like the move, I also feel the same pain and
> I also think you're normal.
>
> To make it worse the advertised discourse mailing list option apparently
> doesn't work well - at least for "normal" people (see
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3073).

To add another FtR: I feel the same. Though I'm not a qgis dev myself, I 
tend to follow this list closely to stay on top of new features and/or 
bugs. I usually use qgis home-built from master.
I understand the move, but personally I find it a big step backwards. 
With proper emails, I can read them in my preferred interface 
(thunderbird), tuned to what I like (e.g. sorting, spacing/font size, 
etc). I read a lot of mail lists, and it helps to have them all in the 
same interface, and all presented to me in the same consistent way. That 
saves a lot of context switching when going from one list to the other. 
I immediately see what messages are new since I looked last time, and 
what subjects they have, in a familiar and compact way. I usually check 
all lists that I follow (50+) daily.
As far as I know there does not exist a similar thing for forums, where 
I can view each forum that I'd like to follow in one single application, 
with a highly customizable interface.
When this list moves to discourse, I'm afraid it will just become 
another dormant tab in my browser. It will soon be out of my habit to 
look at, because it will be out of my overview in thunderbird.
I understand that this is just me having stubborn habits (I feel old 
now), but I'm sure there are many more people who feel like this :)

Cheers,
Vincent.
>
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> Jürgen
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