Sorry forgot to hit ‘reply all’
I have been a Discourse user for some professional and OSS projects.
Discourse may not be suitable for a couple of reasons:
1. Users who want to interact via email can continue to do so - but that this is not the default.
- I do worry that mailing lists are dinosaurs, but you can argue the same about forums, with a lot of activity moving to slack, and now discord in recent years. While I like a lack and discord - they do have disadvantages in being walled gardens.
2. categories are the closest thing to mailing lists, but categories are not isolated in the same ways as mailing lists - by default you don’t subscribe individually
- I think this is a positive - I believe the fragmentation of scheme communities has always been a problem and positioning implementations as competitors is unprofessional and unproductive