Programming

26958 readers

1240 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

snowe@programming.dev

Ategon@programming.dev

UlrikHD@programming.dev

bugsmith@programming.dev

Spyro@programming.dev

Are there actually good clients for mailing lists? [Answered: No] (programming.dev)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

24 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Some people talk about mailing lists with a lot of reverence, but I have only ever found them to be extremely ugly and unreadable.

Are there any good clients out there that make them readable? For example a lemmy-like, threaded interface with interactivity? Or for PR/MRs an interface that shows the diffs with syntax highlighting, toggleable unified and side by side diff views, ability to comment within diffs and continue discussions within them (maybe even threaded)?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The best thing I have found is this software, mailman. Check out an example: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/GTPTFUPXXBDMWNQZGZDLM2IIX4FSTT5Y/

It lets you view discussions as threads on a website, and then you when click reply, it gives you the option to reply using your email software. This is a really neat way to do it, although the UI definitely looks rough compared to lemmy. But it might be a better way to do email, where you literally just present it via a forum website but all "posts" and "comments" are handled by your email client.

Or mailman lets you sign in and reply via the software itself, but idk if they are actually using that.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I scrolled through the link but it can't find the threads. The person Jeremy is responding to somebody but I can't see who. Nothing seems to be indented to follow the discussion.

I'm on mobile right now. Does that make a difference for mailman?

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah lmao it appears there are no indents on mobile.