Not to restart the debate, but just to point out a feature -
If you have never looked at Discourse, take a look at Jeff’s recent question about sail covers and scroll to the bottom. You will see that Discourse automatically matched that topic to previous discussions. It always does this, so it is very easy to read previous related postings.
This will become increasingly useful as this feature gets “smarter” at matching and the archive of past postings grows.
Take a look at -
https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/conventional-sail-cover/1678
Even if you were using Discourse as a mailing list just like Google, you could click on “Visit Topic” in the email and get there.
Jon
N26C #115 - Inua - Kingston NY