Patrick Shanahan composed on 2022-06-23 16:29 (UTC-0400):
I have never been able to understand why one would prefer the forums for nealy anything. but again, I have some age.
I used to be like that. The reality is activity on opensuse lists seems to be on continuing decline, with few joins to compensate for those who have lost interest or outright left. As to prefer, I don't really, but it compensates for the lists' falloff. Plus: 1-pull becomes push once you participate in a forum thread, unless you opt out 2-formatting content is possible, and often more helpful than without 3-some very helpful and smart users there don't frequent, or are entirely absent from, the lists 4-binary attachments don't get downloaded to yours unless you actively request 5-forum "archives" are better than Postorious, Hyperkitty and most other mailing list archives that have replaced mailman's straight-forward, JS-free, CSS interference-free, plain text version -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata