Le 04/12/2022 à 16:55, Barney Gale a écrit :
I don't want to post to multiple places in order to reach the devs.
Nobody proposed that. In order to reach the devs, you use discourse (or have someone else do it on your behalf). Just let the "second circle" of the community keep their mailing list, as this second circle just won't switch to a specialized, and quite unflexible tool. Yeah, without most core devs, this list might be more akin to python-ideas than the old python-dev. But it makes sense to keep the bigger following it has grown over the years.
I prefer mailing lists personally, but theyve been losing out to web forums for 20 years now.
This is historically untrue. In technical communities, web forums have been considered second class tools until some 5 years ago, with mailing-lists being seen as lighter, more flexible and more capable. Then they began loosing to *heavily moderated* web forums because of the insistence on moderation. Yeah, smartphones with no capable mail client played a role too. Cheers, Baptiste