[hackerspaces] Mailing List Software

[Mark Janssen]

On 4/25/14, Ryan Rix <ry at n.rix.si> wrote:
> Paul Brown <paul90brown at gmail.com> writes:
>> I just noticed a hackerspace using some software called Discourse for
>> their mailing list + forum: http://forum.tinkermill.org/latest/more
>>
>> It also looks like Discourse is free (and open source) as long as you
>> host it yourself. The github page for Discourse is here:
>> https://github.com/discourse/discourse
>
> I've been trying to carve out time to build a discourse deployment for
> my budding space. I have high hopes for it, but it lacks deep email
> integration, it seems like. Their deployment stuff seems pretty simple
> though.
>
> I've got high hopes for it replaceing mailman, myself, so long as the
> email integration improves in the long-run.
>
> Google groups, though, is a horribly bad product, imo. :/
>
>> At Dallas Makerspace, we use a bunch of different Google Groups. We
>> switched from mailman because Google Groups has a better web interface
>> and we liked the idea of not hosting/managing it ourselves.
>> Unfortunately, no one seems to use Google Group's web interface and
>> there are a few quirks I would like to fix, but it isn't open source.
>>
>> Discourse's categories functionality and better web interface makes it
>> seem like a good replacement for Google Groups.
>>
>> Does anyone have any feedback about Discourse vs Google Groups? Is
>> there an even better alternative?
>>
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MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington