<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>I'd second this sentiment. There's nothing inherently bad about using Discourse, but I dont feel like it adds much in the way of value and would require unnecessary effort to maintain. <div><br><div dir="auto">Meanwhile, the mailing-list format works well and isn't overwhelming, given the volume of messages. </div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Doug Moen <doug@moens.org> </div><div>Date: 2018-11-28 1:38 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Would we want to aim for something like a Discourse.org site for KWLUG? </div><div><br></div></div><div>I personally prefer a mailing list, because right now, all of my "social media feeds" (including KWLUG) are delivered via email, and go into a single inbox, which I can read and administer using a single user interface. I don't want to go to a different website to read forum posts for each forum that I participate in.<br></div>
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<div>I investigated Discourse earlier this year. At that time, I felt that the email integration provided a worse user experience than a mailing list, for people like me who prefer to interact via email. Also, it appeared that maintaining a discourse server would be a significant volunteer commitment, as I saw forum comments about the complexity of maintaining a discourse server.<br></div>
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<div>I didn't make notes about why I thought the email integration is poor. Chamunks mentioned that as a feature. I'll have to reconstruct what my objections were.<br></div>
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