Re: [Caml-list] Ask questions on the mailing lists too

[Daniil Baturin <daniil@baturin.org>]

On 1/17/22 16:20, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Sam Kuper (2022/01/16 14:31 +0000):
>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 09:40:20AM +0000, orbifx wrote:
>>>> For more specific help I encourage you to ask your question on
>>>> Discuss https://discuss.ocaml.org/
>>> Please keep the mailing lists going too, with people asking questions
>>> or having discussions here. Not just for announcements.
>> +1.
>>
>> Discourse (the service-as-a-software-substitute currently being used to
>> provide https://discuss.ocaml.org/ ) has some quite serious
>> accessibility flaws.  The more that discussions happen there instead of
>> on the mailing list, the less accessible the OCaml ecosystem is likely
>> to become.
> Being myself blind I feel very concerned about accessibility. I admin I
> didn't try the forum, but (1) all the forums I tried so far I ofudn way
> mess accessible than good old mailing lists and (2) yes, mailing lists
> are totally accessible and, in my opinion, very simple to use.
> Many thanks for promoting the accessibility concern!
>
> Sébastien.

Could you try the discuss.ocaml.org forum and share your opinion about 
its accessibility?

Discourse is NOT a service-as-a-software-substitute. It's free software 
distributed under GPLv2. See https://github.com/discourse/discourse
They provide managed hosting to fund its development and make life 
simpler for people who don't have the skill or time to maintain their 
own servers. Their managed hosting is also free of charge for FOSS projects.

Its accessibility _can_ be improved by the community.