LightDM - Feb 2019 - Moving mailing list from freedesktop.org infrastructure

> > > Google Groups are still a thing. Seems like it might be a good
middle ground between a modern forum and a mailing list.
> > 
> > +1 for Google Groups.
> 
> groups.io is even better.  And is not part of "Big Brother
Google".
If it's a public group then it doesn't really matter whether it's
hosted by "big brother" or not, since big brother will see it anyway
wherever it's located.

I had a look at groups.io and it does seem pretty good.  It looks like
you can't get an RSS feed of new topics/threads (only a feed of
individual messages) so Google Groups is a bit more flexible for RSS
users, but it does seem to work quite well in other respects.

Looks like you only need an account to use the web interface, which has
both threaded views and a straight list of messages.  Apparently you
can "mute" individual threads which could be useful on some lists,
although it doesn't look like this would affect the RSS feed as the URL
is a shared one and not user-specific (although I haven't joined a
group yet, maybe you get your own RSS URL once you join a group?)

It's certainly faster to access than Google's offering and it's a
bit
clearer about how to join the group and manage your subscription, so
I would be happy to use groups.io as well.  It does look like it has a
more enthusiastic development team behind it and is probably a better
fit for an open source project.

Cheers,
Adam.

At Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:07:53 +1000 Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net>
wrote:
> 
> > > > Google Groups are still a thing. Seems like it might be a
good middle ground between a modern forum and a mailing list.
> > > 
> > > +1 for Google Groups.
> > 
> > groups.io is even better.  And is not part of "Big Brother
Google".
> 
> If it's a public group then it doesn't really matter whether
it's
> hosted by "big brother" or not, since big brother will see it
anyway
> wherever it's located.
> 
> I had a look at groups.io and it does seem pretty good.  It looks like
> you can't get an RSS feed of new topics/threads (only a feed of
> individual messages) so Google Groups is a bit more flexible for RSS
> users, but it does seem to work quite well in other respects.
> 
> Looks like you only need an account to use the web interface, which has
> both threaded views and a straight list of messages.  Apparently you
> can "mute" individual threads which could be useful on some
lists,
> although it doesn't look like this would affect the RSS feed as the URL
> is a shared one and not user-specific (although I haven't joined a
> group yet, maybe you get your own RSS URL once you join a group?)
> 
> It's certainly faster to access than Google's offering and it's
a bit
> clearer about how to join the group and manage your subscription, so
> I would be happy to use groups.io as well.  It does look like it has a
> more enthusiastic development team behind it and is probably a better
> fit for an open source project.
Two groups (related to each other) that I was on moved from Yahoo to 
groups.io.  It was seamless and painless.  I have no interest or use for any 
sort of web interface and if the LightDM mailing list moves to a pure web 
interface, I am gone.  Oh, and I have no interest in an RSS feed, since I 
won't ever be using the web interface anyway.  Anything interesting that
lands
in my E-Mail inbox I would just file on my local file system for later access. 
(I am on a dialup connection, so saving things like URLs is not useful.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam.
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