> That's not the first time I mention it, but Discourse
> (http://www.discourse.org/) seems like the kind of forum software
> appropriate for some of these problems.
>
> It allows:
>
> - branching off conversations (you all know how this is one of the biggest
> problem here)
>
> - community moderation: several people flagging the same reply -> it gets
> hidden
>
> - good online interface: I am on the point of view of the readers of this
> mailing list, and reading that list is *very* difficult. It's either you
> subscribe and let you personal email get bombarded (we are not all on
> gmail), either you use a weird mirror that mixes up all emails and don't let
> you distinguish threads and discussions
>
> - easy login (openid): again, if you want to contribute from times to times
> to the discussion, you have to subscribe, and that's opening the gates of
> hell
>
> They are also working on having it work like a mailing list, i.e. getting
> all the posts as mail, and, I think, be able to reply by email also.
>
> Just a reminder: do you know stackoverflow? How it changed the game with
> finding answers to technical questions on the web. Well discourse is by on
> of the authors, with the same spirit. It seems like very good software, very
> far from what "forum" comes to everybody's mind, and quite appropriate to
> *some* of the problems here.
>
Please move this discussion to another thread / topic as this is off-topic.
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Florin Patan
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