[effie]

Modern does not mean better. Email-based collaboration is most welcoming to new people and good enough for the regular participants. I for one do not want to create an account and learn how some slow web application works for each project when I can do with sending an email.

[icelancer]

>> Email-based collaboration is most welcoming to new people

What? Aren't new collaborators way more likely to be younger and acquainted with Web-based tools like GitHub/GitLab?

[effie]

New wannabe collaborators maybe. But does the project want to attract only young people who don't care about corporate control creep over free software? Or does it want to attract all able young people including those who understand the benefits of the email based collaboration, which is being the only convenient, decentralized, non-corporate-controlled and the most equitable way for strangers to communicate over the Internet?