(low-frequency) mailing lists | suggestions & summary of prior thread

[Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss]

On 5/24/23 00:03, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dimarts, 23 de maig de 2023, a les 14:10:37 (CEST), Joseph P. De Veaugh-
>> Beyond typical forum functionality, Discourse integrates well with email
>> and RSS. Something to consider for low-frequency mailing list groups:
>> there may be projects and communities that benefit by officially moving
>> communication to Discourse. Although I have no data to back up the
>> claim, I suspect having users interact on a more active platform could
>> generally increase engagement within KDE.
>>
>> A nice feature of Discourse is: for mailing list subscribers who wish to
>> continue receiving posts in their mail clients,
> 
> Is it really? I remember once that i visited, commented on a post and never
> ever got emails when people answered me on that post. I am not a crazy person
> that plans visiting discuss.kde.org every 5 minutes just in case someone has
> answered me, the site must send me an email and in my 1 time experience it
> failed to do so.

Is this with "mailing list mode" enabled?

I think what you are describing is related to general email settings for 
notifications. This can be found under Profile > Preferences > Emails. 
This looks like the relevant place: "Email me when I am quoted, replied 
to, my @username is mentioned, or when there is new activity in my 
watched categories, tags or topics." Perhaps check your settings there?

Note there may also be relevant settings under Profile > Preferences > 
Tracking for "tracking" and "watching", word choices which do not make 
the distinction clear, in my opinion. Right now I am not well-informed 
about the options here.

However, I am testing "mailing list mode" and I receive dozens of emails 
a day for the categories I did not mute (see info below). I have not 
tested the reply by email function yet, though.

Cheers,
Joseph

>> it is possible to follow
>> discussions via RSS or by enable mailing list mode in Discourse. It
>> takes some setting up; see below for more.

>> Info about using Discourse with email and RSS:
>>
>>     * Users can enable "Mailing list mode", which allows one to receive
>> and respond to posts via email (i.e., just like a mailing list). By
>> default, users receive posts to /all/ categories -- limiting posts to
>> specific categories requires manually "muting" the other categories. See
>> the community wiki for more detail, including how to mute categories:
>>
>>       https://community.kde.org/KDE.org/KDE_Forums#Mailing_List_Mode
>>
>>     * Alternatively, one can follow specific categories, tags, etc. as an
>> RSS feed. Again, see the community wiki for details:
>>
>>       https://community.kde.org/KDE.org/KDE_Forums#Following_RSS_Feeds

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