Re: Markdown Discord/Slack? Just a thought...

[Marc Chantreux <eiro-fbXiWI9j2LLYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>]

hello

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:35:01AM +0200, BPJ wrote:
> I agree emphatically with this and the rest of what Marc said.

actually, i replied to Gabriel also because i feel his pain and there is
an issue to adress there:

* web people are happy about web because it looks good and it's easy
  to dive in. i get it ...
* people like us don't want to loose all the opportunity the plain text
  gives us.

both visions are valid but incompatible and communities have to make
choices (and make a part of them unhappy) or try to use broken bridges
(like the so called "mailing-list mode" of discourse which is just unusable)
and break the whole flow.

i thought about it for years. even tried to contribute to a mailing list
manager but i quickly realize that webmails will never be capable enough
to embrace all the features i expect from an MUA (+ it is really hard to
find a very talented frontend devel to work on those kind of things
because they don't get the point).

So when i read "Just a thought...", i thought "what a thought" :)

At least we can help Gabriel about the "format" thing.

regards.
marc