I assume many have muted or are ignoring the "thankspam" thread, but it has
changed topic rather meaningfully, and I think it deserves broader
attention.
A.
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From: Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
On 15 January 2016 at 15:50, Guillaume Paumier
<guillaume.paumier(a)gmail.com> wrote:
moving Wikimedia mailing lists to Discourse
What problem is this intended to solve?
Very short answer is "that mailing lists are an awful user experience for
most people". Longer, but still very partial, list at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discourse#What_we.27d_gain_.28user_experien…
I'll add more there at some point, but probably not today.
Luis
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