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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
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it seems to me that using ikiwiki instead of a mailing lists has some major
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weaknesses which I fail to overcome, but which may be possible to fix, maybe
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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
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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
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colors and labels if my MUA supports it
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- With MLs I can easily send a reply, without going through git. Reading and
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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
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it's not the same - I don't see the tree of comments like in e-mail. Either I
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sort by creation time (not seeing evidence of more recent replies) or by
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last-edited time, or perhaps by last comment (then busy pages cause less busy
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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
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it, while the user sees an MUA-like interface
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- Add some plugin to ikiwiki that can cooperate with an MTA: listen to e-mail
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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
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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
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me being crazy, I prefer a general-purpose solution that helps everyone)
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