Re: Wake up

> That's not the first time I mention it, but Discourse > (http://www.discourse.org/) seems like the kind of forum software > appropriate for some of these problems. > > It allows: > > - branching off conversations (you all know how this is one of the biggest > problem here) > > - community moderation: several people flagging the same reply -> it gets > hidden > > - good online interface: I am on the point of view of the readers of this > mailing list, and reading that list is *very* difficult. It's either you > subscribe and let you personal email get bombarded (we are not all on > gmail), either you use a weird mirror that mixes up all emails and don't let > you distinguish threads and discussions > > - easy login (openid): again, if you want to contribute from times to times > to the discussion, you have to subscribe, and that's opening the gates of > hell > > They are also working on having it work like a mailing list, i.e. getting > all the posts as mail, and, I think, be able to reply by email also. > > Just a reminder: do you know stackoverflow? How it changed the game with > finding answers to technical questions on the web. Well discourse is by on > of the authors, with the same spirit. It seems like very good software, very > far from what "forum" comes to everybody's mind, and quite appropriate to > *some* of the problems here. > Please move this discussion to another thread / topic as this is off-topic. ---- Florin Patan https://github.com/dlsniper http://www.linkedin.com/in/florinpatan