Bugs & Suggestions Started May 20, 2026 11:42 PM

[Forum improvement] Mailing list functionality

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May 20, 2026 11:42 PM Last edited May 20, 2026 11:42 PM
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mailinglist suggestion request

Heya,
can admins of this forum add mailing list functionality? I'm keeping up with all forums I'm interested in through my notmuch email client in Emacs. It's always a huge overhead to being have to open a heavy Tor browser only in order to check latest threads and to reply them. So, it would be nice to have a mailing list functionality like discourse forums, where you can easily enable that functionality in settings, and then follow and attend discussions from your email client.

Thanks!

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May 20, 2026 11:47 PM
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We have an RSS feed to get the latest threads https://monero.forum/rss.xml

But I can look into doing something more advanced :)

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May 21, 2026 12:08 AM
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It is nice to have RSS feed, I can use it for now, but still I find mailing lists better, since you can get the whole thread like a mail tree and can reply any specific comment etc. With RSS feeds, you cannot receive new comments, reply them etc.

But I can look into doing something more advanced :)

I'd appreciate that. Thanks for considering!

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May 21, 2026 7:11 AM
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+1 on the OP's suggestion/request.
Most people do not know how /comfy/ it is to read and reply to online discussions via your email setup. Be it neomutt, or notmuch email clients, an email client allows you to be "local first". Discourse forum software is perhaps the peak of such experience. I have joined lots of programming community forums, which use Discourse as their forum software, and I follow 10 of them from my single email client. Each new message drops to my email mailbox, and using the client side filters I move these emails to their local folders and sort them. I can go through hundreds of messages and threads from lots of diverse forums very quickly, AND, reply to any one of them from my email client. All the while without the hassle to open my tor browser, enter the URL, click the login button, enter my username, open my password manager, copy-paste my password, click on the new/unread messages, .etc. etc. etc.

So, yeah, it would be amazing if we could:

  1. get every new forum posts to our email inboxes, via message threading
  2. reply to any of the forum posts from our email clients

This essentially brings back the "mailing list", or Newsgroup-like experience to the modern forums, and I love it.

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