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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Move internals discussion to a better medium
From: ml@anderiasch.de (Florian Anderiasch)

On 08/03/2015 12:22 AM, Stephen Coakley wrote:

> Personally, I'd like to see the mailing list move to a forum-type
> system. Lower barrier of entry, more visible archives, and more modern
> medium that supports other kinds of attachments and whatnot.
> 

I don't buy the "lower barrier of entry" argument.

Forum:
- Sign up via web form
- Get authentication email
- click on it, be logged in or not
- post

List:
- Sign up via web form
- Get authentication mail
- reply
- post

Someone iirc said you can even reply without signing up, so it might be
even lower. Unless you're saying people don't know what a mailing list
is or how it works - then ok. The same could be said for any type of
web-based infrastructure.

My actual main gripe with forums is that you can't skim it as easily (if
you're not reading every thread) because everything is split up into
subforums and paginated and whatnot. Or would "internals" be one subforum?

~Florian