On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 15:26 Baptiste Carvello <devel2022@baptiste-carvello.net> wrote:

Le 21/07/2022 à 07:59, Stefan Behnel a écrit :
>
> I'm actually reading python-dev, c.l.py etc. through Gmane, and have
> done that ever since I joined. Simply because it's a mailing list of
> which I don't need a local (content) copy, and wouldn't want one. Gmane
> seems to have a complete archive that's searchable, regardless of "when
> I subscribed".
>
> It's really sad that Discourse lacks an NNTP interface. […]

+1000

For this switch to accommodate all use cases, Discourse really needs a
"lurking" story.

That's lacking right now, possibly by design (Discourse developers are
quite opinionated*, and anonymous reading seemingly doesn't fit their
worldview). Maybe they can be convinced, though…

Lurker here. :) I lurk, both on -ideas and -dev, primarily to stay well-informed on new ideas coming down the pipeline, and occasionally (but rarely) voice my two cents.

I signed up on Discourse after this thread started, and turned on mailing list mode immediately. So far, I have no problems with that. It suits my purpose just fine once I muted the Users forum. I might mute a few others soon.

I consume the mailing lists (and now Discourse) through standard Gmail interfaces (both the web interface and the official Android app), so I cannot speak to the lack of proper threading (it's all linear anyway in Gmail). I do use filters in Gmail to label threads by list, and I found that Discourse plays nice with this: each forum, like each mailing list, has its own mailing list attribute with a corresponding "list:" search prefix in Gmail, so filtering, labeling, and organizing by forum is easy. (Example: https://snipboard.io/WGF6Qz.jpg)