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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 18:08:06 -0300
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To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Move internals discussion to a better medium
From: marcio.web2@gmail.com (Marcio Almada)

Hi, Rowan

2015-08-03 4:31 GMT-03:00 Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>:
> On 2 August 2015 23:35:38 GMT+01:00, Marcio Almada <marcio.web2@gmail.com=
> wrote:
>>This is their email announce the end of their mailing list back in
>>2015
>>https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2015-January/011558.html
>
> Amusingly, the first reply to that is someone trying to set up an email g=
ateway to the forum because they like their current workflow...
>
> It's certainly worth considering a forum rather than e-mail if there's re=
al evidence of advantages, though. The challenge then would be to figure ou=
t what to use - let's not pick something trendy and list "features" like in=
finite scroll and markdown, but actually think about what benefits of the M=
L we want to preserve, and what we want to fix.
>
> So, for starters, we need something with a low barrier to entry, easy to =
keep track of what's new, with good search support, a decent threading and =
sub-threading system... I'm sure we could come up with a shopping list and =
evaluate systems against it.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Rowan Collins
> [IMSoP]
>
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It took a while to reply, I was doing a few experiments with the
Discourse platform:

So I subscribed to the Rust forum (https://internals.rust-lang.org/)
using the "login with github" option and waited a few days of usage to
see how good it is.

On the first day, I noticed that by default Discourse will not send
you a lot of emails so I wondered if we could get the same email
experience that we usually get from a regular mailing list, and turns
out it's possible. On the profile page these options can be marked:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49549530/screenshots/options.png

With that settings I've got an email entry for every reply on every
thread of the forum. The messages come in the following format along
with the replies if they exist:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49549530/screenshots/message.png

With just a few clicks it kinda works as a mailing list too + I could
enjoy all the benefits of the web UI :) The only thing I couldn't
adapt through the profile settings was the infinite scrolling, which I
don't love too.

I won't give any conclusion yet, but it's been very pleasurable to use
Discourse.

Marcio.