If mailing lists had a view like reddit / lemmy / slashdot / hackernews, I might be more willing to use them, but that wouldn’t solve contributions for me. I have no idea how to format emails to comment on code and then follow ensuing discussions.
Comment on What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels?
Piatro@programming.dev 1 year ago
I agree with those saying mailing lists are intimidating. I don’t know if others are using dedicated tools or something but I find web based mailing list UIs just incomprehensibly bad and difficult to navigate.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
If you feel like learning more about it, there is a great tutorial available:
dsemy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Most web-based mailing list UIs are honestly incredibly bad, but you don’t need to use them, you can choose any email client you want.
o11c@programming.dev 1 year ago
The problem with mailing lists is that no mailing list provider ever supports “subscribe to this message tree”.
As a result, either you get constant spam, or you don’t get half the replies.
dsemy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I sort messages from mailing lists into different mail folders, and my client (Gnus) supports a threaded view of messages (and I can press ‘k’ on a message to mark the entire thread as read), so this isn’t a big issue for me.