[SailfishDevel] was "Acceptable Behaviour.." --> Forum

Joseph Crowell joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com
Sun May 25 02:17:46 UTC 2014


On 5/25/2014 2:34 AM, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch wrote:
> Hi Lauri
>
> That is an interesting perspective: my feeling / experience was 
> exactly the opposite: the chief weakness of mailing lists is that they 
> have no usability whatsoever: I get just a flat list of unorganised 
> mails swamping my inbox.
>
> That of course may be down to the weaknesses of the web-mail client I 
> use. I would welcome advice on "best-practice" tools for consuming 
> mailing lists. I am (mostly) on OSX, sometimes on Windows and Linux. 
> To quote Churchill "give us the tools and we will do the job".
>

Thunderbird allows a threaded view which works great for a threaded view 
and 'detects' mail server settings when you put in your email address. I 
filter mailing list mails from KDE, Qt and Sailfish in to their 
respective folders and then on each of those folders I [View > Sort By > 
Threaded] on each of those folders.

> From my point-of-view, plus points for usability of forums over 
> mailing lists are (in no special order):
> * Stickies
> * Sub forums
> * Search
> * Private Messages
> * Edit previous posts (I could have used that today when I 
> inadvertently clicked send too early)
> * Thread based perspective
> * Does not fill my mail file
> * Visible metadata such as number of replies, date of most recent 
> reply, number of posts etc.
>
> Downsides of forums are:
> * yet another user/password to manage (although a forum could be 
> integrated into together.jolla.com
> * yet another site to visit regularly (in addition to my mail client)
> * karma: so distracting, I prefer the simple egalitarianism / 
> meritocracy of mailing lists
>
> Grüsse
>
> Chris
>
>
> Zitat von "Lauri Nurmi" <lanurmi at iki.fi>:
>
>> 24.5.2014 13:56, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch kirjoitti:
>>> My suggestion is that rather than splitting into multiple mailing 
>>> lists, which does not really cure anything, you replace the mailing 
>>> lists with a forum. I agree it would be crazy to have both.
>>
>> -1
>>
>> Is there any forum platform whose usability is not totally terrible 
>> compared to mailing lists?
>>
>> First of all, to be able to keep track of who has replied to whose 
>> post, and which post, I want to see the posts as a tree. But offering 
>> such a tree view seems to be very rare on forums.
>>
>>
>> LN
>>
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