Mailing lists are a platform/protocol not really a UI. IRC is trash if all you are using is some terrible web UI, but much better with proper native apps designed around its use cases. Mailing lists are a massive improvement over Discord that so many projects tend to use instead. I’d take a mailing list over a Discord “server” every day.
Yeah, I’m not even talking about the UI, but the UX of mailinglists. The UI is terrible, but I find the UX even worse.
IRC is yet another protocol from another era. Most clients don’t parse links and don’t provide link previews, don’t support code blocks or syntax highlighting, don’t support threads, don’t support listing the slash commands, don’t support images, don’t support markdown, no audio, no video, servers can’t group chat rooms like matrix, there’s no encryption either, …
It’s just shit.
If it were the choice between mailinglist and discord, I wouldn’t take either and not communicate altogether. Fuck those both.
Edit: sorry, I really dislike IRC, mailinglists and discord. It’s fine if you do like mailinglists and IRC. You do you 👍
Mailinglists are such a joke. They are a terrible user experience all around. It’s like being stuck in the 90s.
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Mailing lists are a platform/protocol not really a UI. IRC is trash if all you are using is some terrible web UI, but much better with proper native apps designed around its use cases. Mailing lists are a massive improvement over Discord that so many projects tend to use instead. I’d take a mailing list over a Discord “server” every day.
Yeah, I’m not even talking about the UI, but the UX of mailinglists. The UI is terrible, but I find the UX even worse.
IRC is yet another protocol from another era. Most clients don’t parse links and don’t provide link previews, don’t support code blocks or syntax highlighting, don’t support threads, don’t support listing the slash commands, don’t support images, don’t support markdown, no audio, no video, servers can’t group chat rooms like matrix, there’s no encryption either, …
It’s just shit.
If it were the choice between mailinglist and discord, I wouldn’t take either and not communicate altogether. Fuck those both.
Edit: sorry, I really dislike IRC, mailinglists and discord. It’s fine if you do like mailinglists and IRC. You do you 👍
Anti Commercial-AI license
It always bewilders me to hear that some peasants adopted discord server out of all things for an open source project.