[bkummel]

Don't. There are more modern and superior solutions like e.g. Discourse. I don't see why people should use old-fashioned things like mailing lists in 2024.

[sph]

I do not have to time to hang about in forums, nor to idle on Discord or IRC.

E-mail, on the other hand, is a constant. I can snooze it, read it on Emacs, file it with custom rules, deal with it however I want. It doesn't require any particular app, any particular form of formatting, it doesn't give me points, badges, weekly recap emails, or require me to upload an avatar.

I feel mailing lists are underrated, and reading from this thread, it's mostly because the software to run them is as intuitive as Sendmail.

[soegaard]

Note that Discourse can be used in "mailing list mode", so you don't have to leave Emacs.

[gkbrk]

Discourse has terrible UX compared to other online forums and even mailing lists.

Your claim that it's superior needs to clarify exactly what is superior about it.

[gadflyinyoureye]

Is Discourse easily searchable from the outside? I was looking up transaction behavior in Postgrsql last night. I came across such an old school mailing list. The utility was that it appeared rather high in the search results.

[donalhunt]

The OpenStreetMap community decided to go the discourse route after a review of requirements and options available.

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_forum

Talk about discourse for OpenStreetMap: https://www.youtube.com/live/VkZJd-4C1Ws

[bkummel]

In my experience, Discourse forums do appear high in search results as well. The added benefit is that they have a good UI to read old threads, unlike mailing lists.

[hprotagonist]

discuss.python.org comes up in my search results, sure.

[ajb]

Reminder: 'modern' and 'old-fashioned' are political epithets, not measurable quantites.