[ripe-list] The Future of Discussion Lists

Hi Nick, all,

> On 29 May 2023, at 12:56, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
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> Tim Bruijnzeels wrote on 28/05/2023 18:54:
>> [...] They are also archived, which helps this.
> the more fundamental issue here is whether the content should be self-hosted or hosted using a third party content hosting system. I.e. if the third party becomes unworkable or disappears entirely, what happens the content?

If you want to go self-hosted then Mattermost may be worth considering. There are of course also other solutions.

My main point was though that I would love to have an official, yet informal, modern chat option with discord/mattermost like features in *addition* to the mailing list (which I do not want to replace).

Chat serves a different purpose. An official (yet informal) instance would go a long way to encourage quick discussions between people that otherwise would not meet. Lacking this, people will just self-organise like they do today (IRC, telegram, their own discord etc). The downside of this is that there will be less interaction between them as they gravitate into their own groups.

Tim

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> Nick