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-[[!tag wishlist]]
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-Maybe I'm not using ikiwiki right, and I'll appreciate any advice on this, but
-it seems to me that using ikiwiki instead of a mailing lists has some major
-weaknesses which I fail to overcome, but which may be possible to fix, maybe
-using some client-side software.
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-The problem: Mailing lists give me things I need but can't find here, so I'm
-failing to track the [[/forum]], [[/todo]] and so on:
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-- With MLs I can easily see what I read, to what I replied, mark things with
- colors and labels if my MUA supports it
-- With MLs I can easily send a reply, without going through git. Reading and
- writing happen together in the same dedicated UI
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-I know I can subscribe to [[forum]] and to individual posts' comment feeds, but
-it's not the same - I don't see the tree of comments like in e-mail. Either I
-sort by creation time (not seeing evidence of more recent replies) or by
-last-edited time, or perhaps by last comment (then busy pages cause less busy
-ones quickly go deep into the list and are never seen by the user).
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-Is there an existing solution to this?
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-Random ideas, maybe direction for a solution:
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-- Make client software which takes a local git clone of a wiki and operates on
- it, while the user sees an MUA-like interface
-- Add some plugin to ikiwiki that can cooperate with an MTA: listen to e-mail
- on a mailing list with specific formatting and put the content into a wiki.
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-What do you think? How do you keep track of the forum etc. in the same way it's
-done with mailing lists?
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-(I don't mind a hacked solution that solves the problem for me, but if it's not just
-me being crazy, I prefer a general-purpose solution that helps everyone)