[Tagging] Consensus switching away from mailinglists? Was: Time to split the list?

[Robin Burek]

Am 18.02.2022 um 19:06 schrieb Florian Lohoff:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 11:40:20AM +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>> 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 .
> Is there a general consensus amongst the users to drop mailinglists per
> se and switch to web based discussion forms?

That would be a question right to the maintainers of
community.openstreetmap.org how would the support of mail-services of
discourse used.
Discourse CAN support to view channels like a mailinglist. So Discourse
can support not only web based discussion, it also can connect web based
an mail based. Then you have the ability to use "push" and "pull"
communication.

> And i dont think splitting comunitys over and over again into the
> different communication channels is a good thing to do. By now we
> have a lot of telegram channels, we have the forum, mailinglists, irc
> channels, and slack channels.
>
> For me adding discourse is like the XKCD about adding another standard.
I see in Discourse so a more huge step to collect the wider community to
one tool. Help, Forum and Mailinglist can collected in one tool, so
these three could set "deprecated" ;) I see in discourse the ability to
add a new standard, that replace three old ones.
For adhoc communication would be a main OSM maintaned Matrix-community
space be best, so others (IRC, Telegram, Slack, I'm shure, there were
facebook-groups also) could also be deprecated....