On Thu Jul 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote:
The D language folks have a great system at https://forum.dlang.org
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
The web interface is exactly the same as the mailing lists, which are exactly the same as the newsgroups, which also produces an ATOM/RSS feed and an IRC bot. Any access reads and, if possible, posts to the same streams of messages.
I think something like this -- which presents/repurposes an existing community -- is likely the best way forward. I think GNU Mailman 3 in theory can do something similar, but I haven't seen many instances of that (and the sites I am aware of using Mailman 2 are reluctant to move to 3. Debian does not use Mailman.)
It means the new interfaces are populated with the existing community and you don't have the Ghost Town issue you might otherwise.
Thanks for sharing, -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ jmtd@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net