On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 7:34 AM Andrea Bocci wrote:

Very simply, if you replace the mailing list(s) with a forum (or fora), I will stop following any Boost discussion.

Yes, thank you for pointing this out. And I am sure many other people feel this way, so I want to stress the following: * Our number one priority is to preserve the mailing list experience for those who want to continue using it. What we are envisioning is: 1. Deploying or implementing a threaded-discussion forum - No existing solution meets our needs, so we have to write it ourselves 2. Importing the entire existing mailing list archive - No messages lost, and posts are tied to the corresponding boost.org account - No disruption of existing conversations 3. Implementing an email gateway to the forum - Basically a port of mailman to python, - and integrated into our custom forum - mail users' experience is unchanged despite using new software on the backend Initially the forums will exactly mirror our mailing lists: * Announcements Forum * Developer's Forum * User's Forum This makes the import simple and makes subscribing via email the same as before (3 lists). At first the "forum" will just be a read-only port of the mailing list archive interface, a nicer way to view the archives inline with the website. We will then build it out, by adding a way to post directly from the site, and so on. At every step the mailing list interface will continue to work as before, the web-based interface will be in addition to the mailing list interface, not to replace it. I hope this clears things up!!!! Thanks