Hi Tim,
I'm one of the Moderators of the forum, and yes, I am actively working
on cleaning up the categorization of the messages. (It's a slow grind,
but I'm making gradual-but-reasonably-steady progress.) I do try to stay
on top of new messages - but I'm also going back through existing messages.
Admittedly, I've been most focused on cleaning up the "Using Django"
dumping ground. However, if there's any request for me to change my
focus for a bit to get the Internals category cleaned up, I'd be more
than happy to oblige.
Ken Whitesell
On 5/4/2023 11:02 AM, Tim Graham wrote:
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.
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