I just wanted to add that while I was not involved in the Discourse discussions at the sprint (and didn't realise there were "discussions" going on), and while I would have been opposed to such a drastic change, my first impressions of discuss.python.org are good.
Things that I have configured to make it better for me: then please don't email me :) )
- secure password and 2FA with an authenticator app
- my default landing page is "latest" not "categories"
- muted the categories I'm not interested in
- disabled direct messages (you can email me; if you don't know how,
- disabled email notifications, except the once per week when I haven't logged in (we'll see whether I change that after a week...)
Things that I just like:
- like button, rather than +1 emails (and you can disable the notifications for this)
- Ctrl+V to paste images into a message
- good mobile layout - doesn't try to do fancy stuff that fails on phones
- transitions between pages are smooth, and drafts are auto-saved (I haven't really wanted more than one tab open yet)
- mentions (my email filtering rules prioritised the lists, so they never came direct - but I should notice actual mentions more quickly now)
So I'm fairly happy to try it out for a while. I'm interested to see whether it works better for PEP discussions (oh I want Google Wave back so badly sometimes!) and if we can migrate things like the buildbot-status list (one thread per configuration might be nice).
Not entirely comfortable with declaring the mailing list "dead" so quickly, but I know for infrastructure stuff it's sometimes hard to get community momentum without just doing it.
Cheers, Steve