On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:08 AM Andrew Barnert <abarnert@yahoo.com> wrote:

> if I want to use email while you use Discourse, it seems unavoidable that one of us is going to be participating as a second-class citizen. You're effectively forcing me (and, more importantly, some core devs) to change.

Yes, at some level there has to be a compromise between the needs of the established developers, and the needs of new contributors, as Brett explained in an earlier email. As a newbie, I'm not in a position to understand how to strike that balance; all I can do is argue for the side I understand best.

> You're not going to convince Stefan that he's wrong for preferring mailing lists, because he's _not_ wrong.

I haven't said and wouldn't say that anyone is "wrong" for using tools that work for them. That's preposterous. This isn't a case of "You're *gonna* use Discourse and *you're gonna like it*!" Come on, is that really the message you got out of my writing? :)

I've been making the case that Discourse can benefit newcomers and hopefully also the overall community by solving common problems better than other tools do. The focus is on what works better in the general case for most people.

That's not to say that someone can't have figured out a better solution for themselves. The question is whether we want to expect everyone to arrive at the same solution, or give them something better out of the box.

Nick