Re: [libreoffice-users] How to ask a question on Ask LibreOffice?

On 2021-02-17 16:07, Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:36:34 -0500 John Kaufmann wrote:
> ...
> > ... It sounds like you know Discourse and find the mailing list
> > side wanting. But if Discourse is an attempt to serve in a single
> > forum users comfortable in both media, it may at least /become/ a
> > solution to the problem of a fragmented user knowledge base.
>
> In my experience it becomes a way of forcing the email users to use
> the web forum instead. The only purpose the email interface serves
> in practice is notifying of web posts.

AskLibO already gives us that. I have to believe (and certainly hope) Discourse offers something 
more.

> Even a bridge as Sophie suggests is likely to kill the mailing list IMHO.

If "kill" means changing the list address, that may be a price worth paying for a larger user base. 
(FTM, I wonder how the larger user base on AskLibO will react/adapt to Discourse.) If it means losing anyone 
now on the mailing list, I can only hope that is incorrect.

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