[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Tod Fitch]

I find it interesting that your reasons for preferring Slack or Discord are the reasons I prefer email: I can ignore email if I wish (though I sometimes do read and respond in real time). I can have my email client automatically sort stuff into separate mail boxes/folders. Then once a day or so, I can look at the folder for OSM tagging/talk/etc. and quickly delete those which do not interest me, read the rest and respond as I feel like. On those occasions where I do respond in real time it seems that the email system did not put significant delays into the process.

Regarding everyone getting 15 different emails because you respond to 15 different people one email at a time, it is possible to respond to the list, just to the single individual, to all those that were copied, or any mix of the above. Seems fairly easy and flexible to me.

To each their own.

In my case I joined Slack this week simply to be able to see and possibly be part of a conversation that I have a strong interest in that I could not otherwise see. If there were a publicly accessible archive or copy of the discussions taking place on Slack, like there are for many other platforms, I would never have joined Slack.

So I now have an additional proprietary app on both my laptop and my mobile phone. And, at least on the phone side, I am getting more alerts that I’d like and don’t see a good way to mute them without muting everything.

With respect to trail tagging, it seems to me that if the Slack discussion ends up with a consensus that a new tag or set of tags is needed then all that discussion will need to be exported somehow and/or repeated on the tagging email lists before there is a formal vote on a wiki tag proposal page. Without a publicly available archive of the discussions then those voting on the wiki may be casting their votes in ignorance of all the points raised and how the proposed tagging addresses them.

—Tod

> On Oct 10, 2021, at 7:28 PM, Eric Patrick <txemt1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Slack, Discord, FB, mailing list, text, IRC, yahoo messenger, Hangouts, pornhub chat room, OnlyFans messenger, that thing Baloo uses (which seems to be as old as IRC). Did I cover them all? Does it matter where something is discussed as long as it’s being discussed? As technology evolves, so too will how things get discussed. I for one am not a fan of the email system, as i get alerts all day long when the discussion gets going. I’m more of a fan of Slack & Doscord as I don’t get alerts all day long and can go back later in the day and catch up in a thread (slack) or scroll through the discord room. They’re also more real time than email is. I can quickly counter a point or have a point countered as it’s real time. With email, I have to read 20 different emails before I can respond. Now, everyone’s email is getting 15 different emails because I responded to 15 different people, one email at a time.
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