Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.

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    1 year ago

    Most web-based mailing list UIs are honestly incredibly bad, but you don’t need to use them, you can choose any email client you want.

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      1 year ago

      The problem with mailing lists is that no mailing list provider ever supports “subscribe to this message tree”.

      As a result, either you get constant spam, or you don’t get half the replies.

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        1 year ago

        I sort messages from mailing lists into different mail folders, and my client (Gnus) supports a threaded view of messages (and I can press ‘k’ on a message to mark the entire thread as read), so this isn’t a big issue for me.