One of the top contributors for Rust did a four-year retrospective and the
first section of his post is about how the Rust community went from mailing
list to Recourse and why:
http://words.steveklabnik.com/four-years-with-rust#rustdev_2. I'm pointing
this out while Stephen regrows some ribs because I think it articulates why
Donald and I lean towards the Discourse solution for our communication
channels.