<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:02 AM, jdd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdd@dodin.org" target="_blank">jdd@dodin.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Le 17/01/2017 à 00:33, Dan Dascalescu a écrit :<br>
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Have you used Discourse?<br>
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we can't change to any new system - there are so many.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure I understand this. Are you saying there's a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice">Paradox of Choice</a> and we can't choose between any of the much better OSS forum software packages?</div><div>1) Even phpBB would be a ton better</div><div>2) I've spent two weeks researching <a href="http://www.forummatrix.org">all the available options</a> and have done the evaluation work for you.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Specially when we don't see what is better.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>When *you* don't see what it better. Look, I can show you in particular 50+ features that make Discourse far superior to a mailing list, but</div><div>1) What would it take to change your mind?</div><div>2) If you do change your mind, how does that make it more likely that this community will be more open to migrate?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For example I don't want to see photos on the list, this would make archives much too huge</blockquote><div><br></div><div>As you can imagine, you can disable attachments in Discourse, and control their maximum size. But the problem is you're still thinking in 1997 terms:</div><div>1) Data storage is extremely cheap nowadays. What is "too huge"? This is a forum, not a gallery.</div><div>2) There will be no "archives" to care about. You access all the discussions conveniently online.</div></div></div></div>