[Cuis-dev] GitHub Discussions

[Juan Vuletich]

Thanks Martin.

I just raised the limit to 512 kb. Let's see if that is enough for PNG 
screenshots. I think it should be.

Cheers,

On 5/20/2022 4:50 PM, Martin McClure via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just caught up on the thread about communications, so here's a reply 
> to several things that were said:
>
> * Yes, I am the admin of Commonhouse.net, the server that hosts the 
> Cuis list. I don't administer the list itself, Juan does that. Thanks 
> for mentioning me, Hernan -- I'm glad to provide service to the 
> Smalltalk community. It is not entirely free, the server keeps running 
> through donations, but the suggested donation amounts are very low 
> because our costs are low and the labor is free. For those that are 
> curious, Commonhouse has been running since 1998. We've out-lived most 
> other free or low-cost services, and we aren't going away anytime soon.
>
> * We don't put disk quotas on our users. Some use a little, some use a 
> lot. Cuis could use more with no complaint from me.
>
> * I don't know how other people's phones' email clients work, but my 
> phone does not download the entire email if it has image attachments. 
> It shows me the text and a button to download the image if I want to 
> see it.
>
> * Screen shots are generally pretty small. PNGs compress well, and you 
> can get a lot in less than 1MB. That used to be a lot, but in today's 
> world that is pretty small.
>
> * Though it's a decision for the Cuis community to make, I personally 
> am in favor of mailing lists over web forums and am in favor of 
> allowing screen shots to be emailed through the list as part of the 
> messages, because sometimes a screen shot or two is the best way to 
> communicate something. Probably not videos, though. :-)
>
> Regards,
> -Martin
>
>
>
> On 5/20/22 12:13, Adrian Sampaleanu via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>
>> With the recent thread on the use of this mailing list as a 
>> communication medium,  I was wondering if GitHub Discussions had been 
>> considered, in order to take advantage of the benefits it brings, 
>> namely threaded discussion, easy media inclusion in posts, 
>> searchability, conversion to GitHub issues, free hosting, etc. The 
>> venue can support email posting, as described here, 
>> https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows/discussions/399
>>
>> Seeing that the Cuis project already uses GitHub to a great degree, 
>> IMO it would make sense to use the discussions part of the service as 
>> well.
>>
>


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