Re: [orca-list] Our list will be moving to Discourse

[Vojtech šmiro <vsmiro seznam cz>]

Hello,

I won't use web interface. If this list will be moved to web, I will 
write my emails and questions to Joanie or Fill issues on Github.

Vojta.

Dne 13. 09. 22 v 10:41 Jace Kattalakkis via orca-list napsal(a):
> On the one hand. Discourse is more modern than an email list.
>
> On the other from what I remember, being on a Discourse forum, I got 
> emails giving me a digest of everything on the forum every week...and 
> specific ones only when I started a topic, and could never reply to them 
> at all even though it gave me the option to respond via email. Now I 
> don't have a running Discourse up and going to test right now., but 
> given the wide variety of Orca versions being run here, it's not really 
> a shock to say oh, everyone is going to have differing experiences 
> compared to, say, everyone just reading a plain text email. Don't get me 
> wrong Discourse has some really, really nice features under the hood. 
> But....it is not as quick or easy to respond to emails or skip over 
> topics I don't much care for, for example I can just go down to the next 
> message in  Mutt or Thunderbird, vs having to go down the topic list 
> then wait for Firefox or Brave or Chromium or whichever browser I'm 
> using to load up the page then scroll all the way down and past the 
> message I want
>
> I feel like the idea of moving to a web based forum isn't really 
> practical in the long run for simplicity and ease of use, honestly. It's 
> taking away the quick and easy part of a mailing list
>
>
> On 9/13/22 08:50, Christian Schoepplein via orca-list wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > moving the list to a webbased service will be the most inaccessible 
> > and most complicated solution, especialy if it is a discussion 
> > plattform for and with blind users :-(. Allthough I know the 
> > advantages of those webforums my expirence is that many blind people 
> > will not longer use those plattforms because they are to complicated, 
> > timeintensive and many unecessary content is presented on those sites. 
> > We tried to move mailinglists for blind people to webbased solutions 
> > years ago and they are dead now, the people do not longer use them :-(.
> >
> > This sites are not really accessible in most cases and interacting 
> > with discussions is complicated or takes at least more time then 
> > writing just simple emails. Most people know how to handle a 
> > mailprogram, but using a webbased solution is not always easy for them.
> >
> > That said, I'd really suggest to move this list to a provider that 
> > offers webbased access but also email based communication. If 
> > communication via email is not longer possible, IMHO this forum will 
> > be used by only a hand full users in future and other alternative, 
> > easier to use solutions, will come up.
> >
> > I'll try Discurse ofcourse, but I feel this is the wrong plattform for 
> > us :-(. The people that made this decission did not have accessiblity 
> > and inclusion in mind :-(.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >   Schoepp
> >
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