Some people talk about mailing lists with a lot of reverence, but I have only ever found them to be extremely ugly and unreadable.
Are there any good clients out there that make them readable? For example a lemmy-like, threaded interface with interactivity? Or for PR/MRs an interface that shows the diffs with syntax highlighting, toggleable unified and side by side diff views, ability to comment within diffs and continue discussions within them (maybe even threaded)?
Inline? That seems wrong. Or as .patch files, i.e. attachments? Then the syntax highlighting becomes a task for whatever app opens that file.
BTW Evolution has markdown support.
I honestly don’t understand your complaints about the visuals. It’s plain text, sometimes HTML. It’s readable. It brings the info across. You can reply, personally or to the list. What do you want, banners? Google Fonts? Big friendly green buttons? A social-media-fication of your programming mailing list?
The answer to what you’re asking for / complaining about boils down to “don’t use mailing lists if your community requires that amount of interactiveness and coding gamification”.
No, mailing lists are used for submitting patches inline. That’s how the Linux kernel and many other projects do it.
https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html
Edit OP linked an example above: https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/5/12/22
TIL👍
I knew I’d get at least one of you people in here 🙄
“I don’t see a problem therefore it doesn’t exist”.
“Everything is fine the way it is, stop complaining.”
“Muh terminals be best”
I guess Bauhaus is your favorite style too.
None of that reflects what I actually wrote.
Nah, more into Brutalism. What’s yours ? Roccoco?
(I love the idea of architectural insults, bring it on)