[zer0zzz]

I really do not like discourse. Mail lists are better because you stay in the loop, plus Gmail is better for searching emails than discourse searches itself.

[cl3misch]

How do you search messages from before you joined the mailing list?

[zer0zzz]

Mail list archives. But at the point where the oss community I was part of switched, I had had a backlog of 8 years of mails.

[m4rtink]

You check the mailing list archives - those usually have a web based interface.