Discourse vs. email -- Pros & Cons

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Thanks for all the insightful comments thus far. I’ve tried to distill the arguments presented into a canonical topic:

Why use Discourse instead of a email mailing list?

Continuing the discussion from Discourse vs. email – Pros & Cons: Comments welcome! When should we use Discourse instead of plain email or a mailing list? Discourse excels at group conversations. Email is still great for 1-to-1 and 1-to-a-few exchanges. But when these conversations attract even more people and go on for a extended period of time, email chains become increasingly unwieldy. Mailing lists were invented to remedy these issues, but it was a bit like trying to build better horse…

Let’s continue this discussion there. I’m entirely open to additions.