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#GNOME project retiring their mailing lists for good is interesting to me.
mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-…

As I have worked with colleagues that primarily use them and having used Discourse for a long time, I would assure them that email replies work well.
I hope they'll stay active and I'd expect the community to get a little closer.

So this gives an example to for other projects to move forward too.

Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

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Emmanuele Bassi
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I'm fairly certain that the migration to Discourse has already been successful: we developed a healthy critical mass over the past three years since we experimented moving the core toolkit lists over to Discourse. We had more traffic and more newcomers there, while the trend for mailing lists has been going down over the past 15 years. Right now, our main holdovers are people *strongly* used to email flows; some converted, others won't.
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Emmanuele Bassi
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Disclaimer: I was one of the people pushing for Discourse in GNOME, and currently am an admin. I am also old enough to have used NNTP and mailing lists as the main interaction mode on various projects. 🙂
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