Great ideas. Who’s going to pay for it? Are opensource devs supposed to wrote the code, maintain it, and audit other people’s code too?

I didn’t need a description of your career, but thanks.

There must’ve been an update. I tried it for a while through all the symbols.

Thanks for he info though.

That’s not git

Yes! Signed this a while back I think. Thank you for sharing. It only needs 30k signatures but only 11kpeople have signed since November 2025! Where are the devs?

I see what you vibed there 🧐

Got it. Yeah, that makes sense. I think ForgeFed did.

Pity. Thank you :)

I’ll check out Thunderbird’s interface again, tried it more than a decade ago with a mailing list and it looked meh. Nothing like lemmy.

Mailing lists are used for contributing to projects with code. Patches are submitted via email into the mailing list. See example.

That looks pretty much nothing like gitlab’s, Microslop GitHub’s, forgejo’s or even sourceforge’s page.

If you hate having information delivered as text, you are never going to love mailing lists.

Wdym? I’m reading text right now. We are interacting with text right now. It has formatting, has linking, has syntax highlighting, all depending on the client.

key: value
object:
  key: value

All this exists in lemmy and I love it.

A lot of other metadata exists in emails too:

• identities
• timing
• person being responded to

Even reactions could be implemented via email e.g if the response body is a single emoji --> reaction.

For merge requests, doesn’t the default GitLab web interface do those things already …?

Does gitlab have a mailing list function? That’d be new for me.

I knew I’d get at least one of you people in here 🙄

“I don’t see a problem therefore it doesn’t exist”.

“Everything is fine the way it is, stop complaining.”

“Muh terminals be best”

I guess Bauhaus is your favorite style too.

I scrolled through the link but it can’t find the threads. The person Jeremy is responding to somebody but I can’t see who. Nothing seems to be indented to follow the discussion.

I’m on mobile right now. Does that make a difference for mailman?

And what have PRs got to do with mailing lists per se?

I posted in the programming community. Mailing lists are used for submitting patches.

a good email client will have some functionality that improves things a bit

I’ve tried Thunderbird, KMail, and whatever the Gnome one is called. Frankly, it doesn’t really improve on legibility. It’s a bit better, yes, but even hackernews looks better. It’s a far cry from lemmy’s UI. If they had markdown support, that would be an improvement.

Mailing lists are terrible. That’s part of why source forges became a thing. You can send pretty much anything into mailinglist in any format you like.

Every generation

Same. radicle, codeberg, gitlab. Once (if?) forgejo gets federation, I bet it’ll lead to a GitHub exodus.

I’m not sure how that would work without something around git. It would require push rights to your git instance: you’d need to add a bunch of tooling to protect yourself:

• stop people from pushing junk to your server e.g large files, endless while loop that pushes issues filled with random characters or just counting endlessly
• stop people from pushing malicious stuff that can infect you by running the git hook that checks the content
• ensure you have protected branches (again probably a git hook?)

You’d need notifications that somebody has create and issue and PR, or a web interface around git so you can see it.

radicle has made something that works, but it required a gossip protocol to do a lot of work. There’s git-bug, but that also runs into the problem of allowing others access to your git.

A simple standard won’t cut it. There is way more that has to be considered besides a simple file format. That’s exactly why git-forges exist. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but way more difficult than a git forge (IMO).

I see where you’re coming from. In that case, it is pretty nice indeed. Being able to click together your UI is definitely very nice.