Dear all,
Like you, I use mailing lists for a long time (20 years for my part).
The mailing lists provide a great service to open source communities,
but they are not flawless and the tools used to manage them and access
to their archives (Sympa <https://www.sympa.org/>, Mailman
<http://list.org/>, ..) are becoming outmoded, probably like the mail
itself... ):
In the meantime, a new generation of forum managers (Discourse
<https://www.discourse.org/>, Flarum <https://flarum.org/>, ...)
emerged. They have a nice and up-to-date web interface and they provide
a better user experience thanks to a lot of features, like rich text
formatting (Markdown), integrated search engine or ability to edit your
posts to correct a mistake without having to send another mail...
For these reasons and many others, a lot of open source projects are
shifting to forums. Here are some examples:
* ITK : https://discourse.itk.org/
* Gitlab : https://forum.gitlab.com/
* Rust : users : https://users.rust-lang.org/ ; developers :
https://internals.rust-lang.org/
* Atom : https://discuss.atom.io/
* Docker : https://forums.docker.com/
* TrueOS : https://discourse.trueos.org/
* Mozilla : https://discourse.mozilla.org/
* ROS : https://discourse.ros.org/
What is your opinion about forums? Would you shift to a forum manager
like Discourse? Do you prefer to stay on mailing lists? Would you like
to have both?