[Qgis-user] Migrating QGIS User mailing list to OSGeo Discourse, yes or no?

[pathmapper]

fwiw it looks like one could search "user" and "developer" with 
https://www.mail-archive.com:

https://www.mail-archive.com/qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org/
https://www.mail-archive.com/qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org/

But if the provider is shutting down like Nabble in the past, this will 
be also gone.

Cheers,
Björn





On 19.01.2024 10:32, Adam Nielsen via QGIS-User wrote:
>> > Perhaps it needs to be a bit more obvious, but you can search the list
>> > for old topics if you use a query like this in most search engines:
>> >
>> >    site:lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/ search terms here
>> 
>> That often does not work.
>> 
>> Try finding this post
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2023-February/052437.html
> 
> 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.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam.
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