[Tagging] Time to split the list?

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We discussed this on FluxBB/Discourse in the past that a centralized
Discourse instance can never replace a federated platform such as a
native mailing list. It would be ideal if they could be bridged.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 12:46 PM Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
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> Dian Ågesson wrote:
> > Until a better communication platform is introduced, I would like
> > to suggest splitting this mailing list into different audiences
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> There's work going on at the moment to set up an (OSMF-hosted) Discourse instance at community.openstreetmap.org.
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> This will provide a flexible discussion platform capable of replacing help.openstreetmap.org (which runs on outdated, unmaintained software), and of hosting the type of discussions which would really benefit from being easily searchable - not one of Mailman's great strengths, particularly since Google has stopped indexing a lot of mailing list content. It's really hard to find old OSM discussions these days - Google just doesn't index them - and that impacts the tagging@ list more than others.
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> With that in mind I think it would be a shame to rework this list only a few months before we have a better alternative available. I don't have a view (and I don't think OSMF has taken a view) on what happens to individual lists after Discourse is made available. If anyone really does want to have the discussion about which platform is best, I'd suggest talk@ is a better venue for that discussion than tagging at .
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> Richard
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