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  • From: "Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>
  • To: "discuss" <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Moving to Discourse (Forum + Mailing List Replacement)
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:52:48 -0400 (EDT)

It would be really annoying to have to manually log into a Web site once a
week and see if there is something new to vote on. The mailing list brings
everything to your face. I've made my decision - I vote No.

--

-Dan Q


On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:40:04 -0400, Maiyannah Bishop
<maiyannah.bishop AT postactiv.com> wrote:

> I'm not really interested in doing this, but I don't think that people
> care to listen to me, so whatever, I guess I'll just unsubscribe.
> -mb
>
> On 2017-04-20 08:08, Jonah Aragon wrote:
> > The idea is basically, we need a good community discussion platform
> > for newcomers (and current members as well). Especially in the way of
> > support, the mailing list just isn't as inviting.
> >
> > I'd like to replace the mailing list completely because I don't want
> > to create fragmentation in the community, we would have two similar
> > systems running with different purposes with different members and
> > nothing would get done. It's hard to get anything done as it is with
> > our current system, and I definitely don't want to add to that issue
> > (which in my opinion, is OpenNIC's biggest flaw).
> >
> > Functionality hopefully shouldn't be too different for die-hard
> > mailing list users, but hopefully people will switch.
> >
> > Discourse is proven in numerous communities. Ubuntu, Let's Encrypt,
> > Atom.io, Docker, and Imgur, to name a few I can think of off the top
> > of my head.
> >
> > We'll test it tonight and see if it works out.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jonah
> >
> > On Apr 20, 2017 6:55 AM, "Zach Gibbens" <zachgibbens AT zachgibbens.org
> > <mailto:zachgibbens AT zachgibbens.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Still wondering what the goal here is?
> >
> >
> >
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Moving to Discourse (Forum +
> >> Mailing List Replacement)
> >> Local Time: April 20, 2017 11:46 AM
> >> UTC Time: April 20, 2017 11:46 AM
> >> From: deep.alexander AT gmail.com <mailto:deep.alexander AT gmail.com>
> >> To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
> >> <mailto:discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
> >>
> >> If you can get some of the skeptics to test it too that'd be great!
> >>
> >> On 20 Apr 2017 1:31 p.m., "Jonah Aragon" <jonaharagon AT gmail.com
> >> <mailto:jonaharagon AT gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm going to set up a testing server for us tonight, I'll
> >> post a link then and maybe some of us can test how the
> >> mailing list functions exactly.
> >>
> >> Jonah
> >>
> >>
> >> On Apr 20, 2017 3:44 AM, "Alex Nordlund"
> >> <deep.alexander AT gmail.com <mailto:deep.alexander AT gmail.com>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 20 Apr 2017 10:04 a.m., <vv AT cgs.pw <mailto:vv AT cgs.pw>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Does it really
> >> work like an email list (reflector)? Would
> >> there be some differences?
> >>
> >> If not, then a move to Discourse would not be
> >> discernible by most people here.
> >>
> >>
> >> Unfortunately there were some slight differences and I
> >> can't quite remember the details, but it'd be great if we
> >> could get some skeptics and give it a try.
> >> Given how popular the topic at hand is we really ought to
> >> document the issues into a wiki page.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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