I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software [LWN.net]

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Mar 28, 2015 0:38 UTC (Sat) by giggls (subscriber, #48434)
Parent article: Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists

Nowadays people tend to use bulletin board software all over the place. Coming from traditional newsgroups and mailing list background I would like to have something which bridges my traditional interfaces to the current way discussions take place on the Internet.

Unfortunately, outside of strongly techy environments mailing lists have long gone!

So this might probably be a nice enhancement of mailman, but what we really need is something which combines the advantage of both worlds.

Sven

P.S.: I'm forced to use phpBB in a single case and I don't like it at all

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I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Mar 28, 2015 1:23 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (5 responses)

> Coming from traditional newsgroups and mailing list background I would like to have something which bridges my traditional interfaces to the current way discussions take place on the Internet.

The D language forum (http://forum.dlang.org/) sounds like exactly what you're describing. It's actually an NNTP frontend, and fully read-write at that. The one thing that really struck me is how *fast* it is compared to... well, every other web-based forum I've ever used.

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Mar 29, 2015 12:48 UTC (Sun) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

The "horizontal-split" mode is rather nice.

Meanwhile, I think it's fast because unlike most other forum software, it doesn't pollute the pages with animated GIFs or - as is also the case with most Web sites these days - thousands of lines of scripts to decorate all the parts of the page after loading, play with the layout, and reinvent things like hyperlinks and the back button because the experience is not "desktop-enough" for the assumed audience otherwise.

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Mar 31, 2015 12:48 UTC (Tue) by kay (guest, #1362) [Link] (1 responses)

Looks like what I was looking several years for ;-)

Is it open source in sense of free software and where can I download it?

Kay

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Mar 31, 2015 14:30 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Following some links at the footer: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Apr 9, 2015 13:42 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (guest, #24899) [Link] (1 responses)

Wow, the speed of that forum is flat-out impressive.
I guess we are all just so used to loading times even with all the responsive designs etc that this seems outlandishly fast :-)

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Apr 10, 2015 10:03 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

I had to check it out too. That is freakishly fast.

I am jealous of whoever wrote that now, because they are awesome.

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Mar 28, 2015 1:38 UTC (Sat) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

The new HyperKitty web interface seems like exactly what you're asking for.

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Mar 28, 2015 2:51 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

FudForum integrates well with NNTP, and since mailman also integrates with NNTP you can have a good mail/forum/nntp service where the users don't have any idea what each other are using. Baen Publishing uses this (bar.baen.com)

Also, there is a company that has a commercial, hosted service that provides a forum-like interface to mailing lists. They also host interfaces for a number of opensource software packages (sometimes without the maintainers of such packages being aware of it unless they go looking)

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Mar 28, 2015 2:53 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

I responded to your comment before reading the article, nabble is the service I was thinking of.

I am still looking for a bulletin board/mailinglist integration software

Posted Apr 29, 2015 9:54 UTC (Wed) by spinda (guest, #102258) [Link]

Groupserver does exactly this:

http://groupserver.org/