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[python-committers] A different way to focus discussions

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu May 24 14:02:45 EDT 2018 
On Thu, 24 May 2018 at 10:45 Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:

>
> Le 24/05/2018 à 18:54, Brett Cannon a écrit :
> >
> >     I don't think Zulip works for structured discussion.  I also find it
> >     slightly less usable than I expected.
> >
> > Why specifically? Do you still find IRC more usable?
>
> Um, no.  But I find Zulip's way of grouping discussions by day *then* by
> topic makes things a bit confusing and not very easy to follow.  It
> seems designed for people who log in every day.
>

Ah, you must be reading Zulip through "All Messages". I personally read
each topic individually by pressing "n" to navigate through each topic with
an unread message, otherwise I too lose too much context.


>
> > Just trying to
> > understand how Discourse would be different enough to solve the issue
> > you're having.
>
> Which issue exactly?  Zulip is decent as a chat system.  It wouldn't
> really work for PEP discussions, IMO.  That's why I asked about Discourse.
>

Fair enough. Would you want a PEPs section and then some naming convention
per thread to denote which PEP a thread is about?
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