Hyperkitty vs. Nabble (was: Launching forum website for GnuCash users)

[Liz]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:07:43 -0500
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> All I am going to say at this point: *I* don't like the (so called)
> 'modern web interface' forums.  There are some big problems (for me
> at least) with web-based forums:
> 
> They require firing up a big resource hog application (eg FireFox --
> most of these 'modern web-based forums' don't work well with Lynx)
> AND the forums themselves use way too much Internet bandwidth, which
> is major a problem for me since I have a dial-up Internet connection
> (yes, really, it is what I have and no I don't have any other options
> at the moment).
> 
> A plain old text-based E-Mail list works great for me: I use a very 
> lightweight off-line E-Mail / News reader (it is actually QWK based).
> New messages (questions AND answers) come to me and part of my
> 'normal' E-Mail reading process.  My E-Mail client is lightweight and
> all of the current batch of messages are on local disk storage (once
> downloaded).  I can compose responses using my own text editor (and
> not have to deal with some funky JavaScript editor hackery).  I can
> even read any saved message *off-line* (no need to fire up the old US
> Robotics V.Everything just to check some little thing).


Relax, there!
this would be an optional interface to the email list, which will
continue to be the underlying program

Liz