Hi, Le mercredi 4 mars 2026, 15:15:16 heure normale d’Europe centrale Stephen Paul Weber a écrit :
I wanted to split off the recent discussion by Peter and Travis suggesting we may consider moving away from mailing lists in favor of MUCs. I think this deserves its own thread so as not to dilute the ongoing conversation in the previous discussion.
I greatly prefer MUCs for 90% of discussion since they are always with me and easy to participate in asynchronously
Why you wouldn't have emails always with you too? There are plenty of email clients available on mobile platforms. And I personally find easier to participate asynchronously with email than MUC (it feels weird to me to answer to an old message in a MUC).
when I have time without feeling like I must really "sit down to form a reply" in very long form.
Well from my experience, I'm more reluctant to reply in a MUC, because people can reply immediately, and you're good for a discussion which may last for hours. Sure you can stop replying, but I find it easier to do it in a mailing list, and go back to it at a later point if necessary. Of course your mileage may vary.
However, I don't think we should remove long form completely. Of course long form could be a wiki or a forum, but the mailing lists already exist and work well for this so I don't see any downside to keeping this format.
We can have XMPP forums and keep the mailing lists at the same time. Best, Goffi