[Python-ideas] Clearer communication

[Cameron Simpson]

On 01Feb2019 12:35, Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:
>I've pitched this before but gotten little feedback (especially positive
>feedback), but I think a Reddit-style forum would be a pretty vast
>improvement. We could easily start a python_ideas subreddit to try it out.

Bear in mind that many participants here are against forums, myself 
included. A mailing list comes to me, its user interface is as _I_ want 
it rather than a single web based interface, and it isn't a web page.

My laptop collects my email constantly in the background; I can read and 
reply to email while offline because the messages are local and my 
laptop has a working mail system which queues.

Email comes to me; a forum must be visited.

>I know the google group presents threaded conversations, but I've run into
>enough bugs trying to use that platform that I now only interact with
>python-ideas via my gmail account, and threads are flattened here.

The flatness of threads is a mail reader artifact. I'm no fan of the 
GMail web interface on a personal basis. I use mutt, and have it 
configured to fold up read threads and unfold threads with unread 
content.

The point here is that with email there are many many clients and one 
should find one which suits your preferred interface and behaviour.

With a web interface this is basicly not a choice. And IMO web browsers 
are terrible email readers.

Some systems like discourse offer a web interface and also email.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>