On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 03:09:45PM +0100, mpan wrote: > There are two concerns I wish to address here. First is about the 3rd > party hosting, the other is about a move to forum software in general. > > TPO is not hosted in organisation members’ basements. It’s already under > control of other parties like Hetzner. Switching to Discourse is merely > carving out a part of traffic and moving it to another entity. We may > discuss whether diversifying operators is beneficial or detrimential for > privacy, users’ freedoms, security and usability. We may argue if that > particular operator is better or worse. But the third party harm argument is > already moot: we are being passed through a 3rd party service right now and > even your message is being conveyed to GMail. > > I am concerned about the move to a forum. I do see a value in increasing > accessibility for the general population, while the ML is mostly dead and > undermaintained, so the move seems reasonable. But that’s not the case for > other MLs. Since Discourse already supports access over email, could it be > possible to enable it for Tor Forums? > Hi mpan, Yes, the mailing list mode feature is very cool and it's available on the Tor Forum. Users need to enable it manually. A simple how-to: 1. Visit your forum "Preferences". 2. Click on "Emails". 3. Check "Enable mailing list mode". And that's it! Tip: If you're subscribed to tor-relays mailing list, I recommend muting the subcategory "mailing-lists/tor-relays": https://forum.torproject.net/c/mailing-lists/tor-relays/25 cheers, Gus > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead
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