<div dir="ltr">I think the simplest answer is just "tradition". Most old open source projects use mailing lists for collaboration. Long time contributors are used to the current system, and they make it work for them.<div><br></div><div>Another way to look at it is that the current system suits the needs of those who communicate on the list the most, and they are the ones who have the power to advocate for change. As someone who closely follows LLVM communications, getting email for every new message helps me stay up to date and makes it easy for me to respond when interested. Maybe if I mainly studied past llvm-dev emails to find answers, I would prefer a separate web UI that I could use to search and study LLVM correspondence, but that probably doesn't describe most of the people that would need to be convinced to use it.</div><div><br></div><div>To fill the gap, there are various services like nabble (I was going to say gmane, but I guess it's dead). It's less than ideal, but it's what we have.</div><div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 6:13 AM Joan Lluch via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I suppose this has been asked before, but I wasn’t able to find a discussion on the subject.<br>
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Is there a reason for not using a web based interface instead of a mailing list?. It seems to me that a using a private Forum would bring a lot of advantages. <br>
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John<br>
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