The primary function of lists.ovirt.org is to provide mailing lists and display their archives.

Hyperkitty is a UI to display archives and it was not intended to act as a forum.

It does have issues displaying archives yet there are outstanding issues upstream.

Until they are fixed the preferred use case is subscribing and communicating via email.

As for integrating with Reddit - we can set up one-way forwarding (reddit->ML) using one of the existing bots

to ensure new threads are visible to subscribers yet discussion would still happen on Reddit.

From my point of view, mailing lists are a good solution for people with lots of incoming correspondence

as everyone can set up their own filters and processing rules. The best use of Reddit is probably as an

alternative to the users list where people can exchange experience and fix issues.

As I understand, this is the subreddit in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/ovirt/

~500 subscribers, 5 threads this month.

~1500 subscribers, ~100 threads this month

From the first glance it looks like the list is doing fine with many active users.

Will it be enough to just notify list subscribers of a new reddit thread? What do you think?

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 2:51 PM Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com> wrote:

Il giorno ven 8 feb 2019 alle ore 16:00 Greg Sheremeta <gshereme@redhat.com> ha scritto:
Hi,

After a user on the users list asked about a forum, I pointed them to our hyperkitty instance [lists.ovirt.org], which people did not know about. Maybe that was a bad idea, because a few who started looking at it commented that it was broken. This is not a good community experience. [Thank you, Marc, for opening https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/issues/206 - but no reply for 2 months on a *major* bug like that?]

While investigating the threading issue today, I found a new issue (attached screenshot).

Also, one person sent the same message to the list 7 times today because he never saw his message show up in the list / UI.

Perhaps hyperkitty is not well-tested nor really used by others, in which case we should not use it. There are many alternative forums, including popular (although admittedly walled off) ones like reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/ovirt]

Please share your thoughts.

Is there a way to integrate reddit wit existing mailing list?
I agree hyperkitty proven itself not being enterprise/production ready and we need a better platform.

Best wishes,
Greg

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