[sph]

I do not have to time to hang about in forums, nor to idle on Discord or IRC.

E-mail, on the other hand, is a constant. I can snooze it, read it on Emacs, file it with custom rules, deal with it however I want. It doesn't require any particular app, any particular form of formatting, it doesn't give me points, badges, weekly recap emails, or require me to upload an avatar.

I feel mailing lists are underrated, and reading from this thread, it's mostly because the software to run them is as intuitive as Sendmail.

[soegaard]

Note that Discourse can be used in "mailing list mode", so you don't have to leave Emacs.