On 26/04/2023 15:43, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 7:12 AM Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:

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Are you using a threaded e-mail reader? If so, do you care if discussions are changed to be flat (like Discourse)?

Yes, and Yes.

The current situation is this. For various reasons, we have no forum for the new website. And a new forum is crucial for attracting new people, as no one in their twenties or earlier wants to use a mailing list. Twenty somethings don't use discussion forums either. Too passe.

Re: Implementation last time this was discussed here and options investigated we found that https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forum implemented a web discussion forum with mailing list interface. One could use either interface, they were equivalent, and the UI seemed to meet approval here. I remember there were also other web discussion forum implementations with mailing list interface, but Fossil was the least unacceptable of them according to here, back in the day. Now, as to whether it could be improved upon, surely yes. However ever since Google stopped indexing discussion forms, I don't think they're the draw of users that they were. Nowadays if you can't find it on TikTok, it doesn't really exist for the under thirties. Niall