[digiKam-users] why do I rejoin Digikam MailMan list?

[Andrew Goodbody]

I am very much against using a forum. They are slower and take more 
effort to read.

Andrew

On 18/01/2022 08:13, Jack Marxer wrote:
> I want to thank the digiKam developers for all the work they have done 
> in developing and maintaining such a wonderful program!
> 
> I also would like to use a forum, but I don't know if there is someone 
> who would be willing to develop and maintain it.
> Jack Marxer
> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:03 AM Ty Mayn <tyrus.mayn at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tyrus.mayn at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>       After study of the public viewable archives I see that discussion
>     is more immediate on this oldfashioned Mailman listservice. Its
>     clear to me that it is small but has some responsive leaders with
>     knowledge.
>          Meanwhile the similarly named digikam Forum hosted by kde is
>     small and more inactive. After posting there this January I resorted
>     to answering my own posting just to be partially useful
>     https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=256
>     <https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=256>
>           The energy on this list service deserves better tools.
>     https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/
>     <https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/>
>     The archive has at least 17 years of useful knowledge zipped into
>     204 separate months that no newcomer (or even old user)will easily
>     search.
>          Has anyone ever prepared and circulated a consolidated archive
>     ready for global search?
>       Every posting member has their  participating email exposed to
>     weak masking that only replaces @ with "at"  while the  forum tools
>     at KDE have good authentication and member shelter.
>          Am I the only one to have spoken on this issue? I would have to
>     search the archives to know but I suppose each current member has a
>     view and every pattern has inertia.  Please accept this as a
>     positive input on a good thing
>     Ty Mayn
> 
>