Good, I don't get why so many people still use mailing lists. I don't like Discourse that much, but it's a big improvement nonetheless.
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I was on several mailing lists that I would occasionally answer questions on when something popped up that I could help with. Most of these moved over to forums over time. I have no interest in popping in to a bunch of different forums everyday to answer questions. I still pop in when I have a question myself but I find the chance of getting a helpful answer has reduced.
im the opposite, i find it hard to keep up with long email threads, but throw a few forums and pages on rss...
Plus lots of them get indexed
Oh no, not Discourse :( I never liked Discourse. I guess mainly for the UI and UX/navigation.
Still likely an improvement for approachability. For a mailing list you essentially need pre-knowledge and a client to use reasonably well. A [Discourse] forum may need an account, but is hosted and straight-forward.
Given that it's already established I see why the question of alternative forms and platforms wouldn't even come up.
A [Discourse] forum may need an account, but is hosted and straight-forward.
Discourse is also working on a Fediverse integration. So at some point you might not even need extra forum accounts.
If they use the fediverse integration that discourse is working on, it'll be fine.