Re: Nabble broken?

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 25/06/2021 à 22:25, David Kastrup a écrit :
> Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:
>
> > Le 25/06/2021 à 18:56, Peter Toye a écrit :
> > > Nabble broken? I wanted to look at a thread in Nabble, but nearly
> > > all of the messages say that they were deleted by the author. Is
> > > something wrong here?
> > >
> > > It's happening on all the threads I've looked at, so  it can hardly
> > > be a mass desertion of contributors.
> > >
> > >
> > > Peter
> > > mailto:lilypond@ptoye.com <mailto:lilypond@ptoye.com>
> > > www.ptoye.com <http://www.ptoye.com>
> > This is exactly the subject of an ongoing thread:
> >
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2021-06/msg00225.html
> Well, hard to realise what the thread is about when all the posts are
> deleted...  I think some people mainly use Nabble, and the GNU list
> archive is probably not the best interface for reading and posting.


Well yes. The archive doesn't help you in posting except
by opening a mailto link in whatever mail client you have,
and is not exactly friendly for reading due to the per-month
threading which makes it more difficult than necessary to
read conversations spanning several months. I think those
archives are to be considered something good at long-term
preservation and not much more. I've occasionally found
https://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/
more helpful.

On the French-speaking list, the Nabble problem has appeared
just a few days ago. That might push us to move to another
web interface for the list, who knows. Nabble has already been
causing quite a few problems in the past, like mangling code
samples. I haven't investigated options yet, though.

Best,
Jean