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Re: Testing Discourse for Debian



On Lu, 13 apr 20, 15:23:28, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2020, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> The thing with the "newer" projects that I've seen (and maybe I'm just a
> curmudgeon trapped in a young person's body) is that they come off to me
> as the early dotcom "exactly like X, except on the internet!" stuff.  
> 
> > Now, in a lot of cases the real conversation happens on GitHub, which
> > isn't exactly the same thing as a forum.  But forums seem to play a large
> > role in some of the more vibrant communities (Rust, for instance).
> 
> Haven't really gone there - I have noticed a lot of forums in regards to
> microcontrollers; but I tend to just leech off of them as I can't stand
> the whole "5th post on basically the same subject on the first page"
> garbage that (beginner) fora tend to cultivate.

Forums probably qualify for "like e-mail, except on the web", as they 
don't bring enough advantages to make them significantly better than 
e-mail.

Discourse does have some advantages over forums.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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