On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 07:21:54PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: ...snip...
Unless this discourse has some great mail bridge (it doesn't) or maybe an rss feed (I do not use those at work, but I guess I could ?) So that I can skim messages on my terms, I think I (and those like me) will be the next "missing people".
So I've been using the email bridge for a while (I think since we set it up) and it's got it's issues for sure, but I am not sure if it's as bad as folks fear.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/guide-to-interacting-with-this-site-b... has general info.
I had just been dumping it into one mailbox, but today I poked at getting it sorted better. For those of you ancient dinosaurs like myself still using procmail (written in 1990!), the following hacky recipe works for me:
:0 * ^List-Id: .*</[-a-z0-9]*.discussion.fedoraproject.org> { NAME=`echo "${MATCH}" | sed 's/.discussion.fedoraproject.org>$//'`
:0 $HOME/Maildir/.fedora.discussion.$NAME/ }
This gets posts flowing into folders by list-id, so:
.fedora.discussion.Ask-Fedora_Ask-in-English/ .fedora.discussion.Project-Discussion/
And of course you can filter more with the actual tags from there if you like. Posts should work fine as they have a reply-to hash with the topic/post and who the email was sent to.
I have been pondering if we could perhaps setup a public-inbox read-only mirror of the posts to discussion. ( https://public-inbox.org/README.html ). It would take a bit of work, as I think we would need to make a non priv user, subscribe to everything, then mangle the emails as they come to not have the reply-to or anything else thats specific to the user. However, that could be a solution to longer term archiving of things, another way for casual people to read things and also allow a nntp frontend for the crazy nntp folks. ;) public-inbox is plain text only, so no images/html there. If there's enough interest in this I would be happy to work with folks who want to set this up.
For rss feeds, you can in general add '.rss' to any url on the forum.
ie, https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/guide.rss will give you a rss feed of all the things tagged '#guide'.
Also, there's a 'latest posts' feed at: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/posts.rss This should be all posts as they come
and a latest topics at: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/latest.rss which is just the topics as they come (ie, the new/initial post in each thread).
I've also been using the rss feeds for a long while and they seem fine and reliable.
As a side note, I use RSS for tons of things. My setup is to run miniflux ( https://miniflux.app/ ) on my main server at home, then I use newsflash on my laptop or an android miniflut on android to read feeds. YMMV.
kevin