I agree with Carsten. I find the groups.google.com web interface much easier to follow and to quickly scan and see which threads I've read and which have new activity. I follow this mailing list more closely than the forum and prefer writing to it.
Incidentally, when I look at the "Django Internals" category of the forum, I see a lot of inappropriate usage questions that get answered there rather than pointed to the correct category. Is there a way to recategorize those posts? On Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 2:09:35 AM UTC-4 Carsten Fuchs wrote: > Hello, > > unfortunately, the subject lines of the emails sent by the forum have the > forum category prepended. These prefixes are long and make it difficult to > parse a large number of emails quickly, which significantly reduces one of > the main strengths of mail(ing-list)s. > > To be honest, I'm surprised that not more mailing list members argue in > favor of the mailing list. > > The mailing list makes it easy to read or at least glance at every single > message, if desired, while enabling readers to skip uninteresting threads > quickly. This is a lot more difficult on the forum, especially with the > user interface as implemented by Discourse, which wastes a lot of white > space (lines with much vertical spacing, as with the topic lines on the > Latest page, are difficult to parse quickly) und whose „last visit“ line is > unreliable, especially if you read the forum on multiple devices (home, > office, mobile, …) with possibly several tabs open at the same time. > > I'm aware that I'm in a minority and that there is no way to convince the > relevant people to keep the mailing-lists, but in my opinion the switch the > forum is a step backwards in accessibility, usability and easy of use. > > Best regards, > Carsten > > Am 04.05.23 um 07:49 schrieb Jure Erznožnik: > > This has been answered affirmatively in this very thread before. > > The forum even has a "Mailing list mode" in addition to several other > mailing options (including a nifty "activity summary"). > > LP, > Jure > On 4. 05. 23 07:28, Curtis Maloney wrote: > > Does the Forum allow me to get email notifications / summaries? > > If not, it will mean I disconnect with that part of the community. > > -- > Curtis > > On Thu, 4 May 2023, at 15:19, Arthur Rio wrote: > > Yes please! > > > > On May 3, 2023 at 11:19:12 PM, jure.er...@gmail.com (jure.er...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > > +1 > > > > *From:* django-d...@googlegroups.com <django-d...@googlegroups.com> *On > Behalf Of *natali...@gmail.com > *Sent:* sreda, 03. maj 2023 20:10 > *To:* Django developers (Contributions to Django itself) < > django-d...@googlegroups.com> > *Subject:* Re: Can we move the activity on this list to the Forum now? > > > > Hello everyone! > > > > I was wondering if we could make a decision about this topic. On the one > hand, and as far as I understand, the forum is the preferred channel of > communication. On the other hand, having multiple channels of communication > can spread important discussions too thin, making it difficult to have > productive conversations in one place. > > > > As a newcomer to the contributing community, I can attest that the current > situation causes some confusion. IMHO, the same applies to the chat > options: there is IRC and the Discord server (though perhaps I should start > a new forum topic about that in order to keep decisions separated). > > > > In summary, I'm +1 to "move on-mass (all few of us :) over there"! > > > > Thank you! > > Natalia. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/2c6cf8cc-91f5-48d9-a3a9-337fff1f3439n%40googlegroups.com.
