The popularity of mailing lists has gone down significantly, although it is still a format which offers advantages to active contributors. Younger generations of developers prefer the immediacy of SnapChat, Discord, and platforms like Reddit over mail subscriptions. To address this need, we have been working on deploying a web-based front end to the mailing list. This feature is part of mailman 3 and it is called "HyperKitty:"
https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/hyperkitty/en/stable/
Our deployment of HyperKitty has been paused while the governance issues are being resolved and this is the latest snapshot (I don't think the messages were imported):
https://lists.preview.boost.org/mailman3/lists/
With considerable effort we can work this into a solution which allows existing contributors to use the mailing list as they are already accustomed to using, while allowing new volunteers who prefer using a browser to also participate. A side effect is that it will make browsing the archives more pleasant.
I like this idea a lot: and I really hope you can make it all work - seems like the best of both worlds? Certainly a web-interface would make the barrier to entry lower, and folks can switch to email later once they're more engaged. John.