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On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 06:10:27PM +0200, Glen Mével wrote:
> > Andreas Rossberg a écrit (le 10/07/2016 à 09:21) :
> >
> > > To paraphrase Dijkstra, IMHO email and mailing lists are an
> > > improvement over more “modern” forums in almost every way, once you
> > > get past the “flashiness” thing:
> > >
> > > - participation without having to constantly log into yet another
> > >   account (with potential tracking),
> > > - all communication through the same tool/UI (that actually works),
> > >   easy cross-communication and cross-quoting, archiving in one place,
> > >   etc
> > > - offline reading & writing,
> > > - proper threading (Discourse sees its lack as a “feature"),
> > > - no annoying gamification,
> > > - open, standardised and guaranteed to still be around in 5 or 10
> > >   years from now.
> >
> > i fully agree with all this. however, there is one single feature that i
> > miss with email and newsgroup: the ability to edit a message after it
> > was sent. sadly, by the nature of those protocols this can’t be fixed,
> > and to me this is the single stuff that makes the web‐2.0‐based
> > solutions (forums and the like) unavoidable. [ other missing features,
> > available in more recent technologies, are either superfluous
> > (avatars?), or tied to contents (redaction in a Markdown‐like format,
> > syntax highlighting…), thus can be circumvented. ]
>
> THis in one thing that google plus allows.  However, I find searching
> for anything on google plus is an exercise in futility.
>
> -- hendrik
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