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.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 15 January 2016 at 15:50, Guillaume Paumier guillaume.paumier@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_experienc...
I'll add more there at some point, but probably not today.
Luis
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