[kictanet] Mailing Lists Usability

[Martin Gicheru]

Moses,

Mailing lists are not loved for their UI, I doubt there is much innovation
left there. UI and UX is left for apps, websites and forums where
developers work every day to get things looking more swanky and ease of use
going up.

We at Techweez sometime back started a forum <http://forums.techweez.com/>
that nears the function of a mailing list in that outside of you getting
informed of new topics and replies by visiting the forum, you can also
choose notification frequency, follow specific topics (and get notified
only when there is contribution in those topics), reply via email and start
topics via email (we are yet to enable these two). Work in progress is a
very light app that will enable one follow all these via push
notifications, so you will be alerted that there is posts you need to
follow and go to the browser to respond.

Beauty of this is you have all these options, choose your pick, we also
have desktop notifications, so you just leave one tab open and conversation
never leaves you.

Regards,
Martin Gicheru
Editor at Techweez

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Hello listers,
>
> I thought I was the only one but today I met someone who also suffers from
> the User Interface of mailing lists.
> The content on KICTANet is rich and it helps build ICT perspectives on a
> day to day basis. However, the readability of messages is usually a pain
> especially when the thread gets busy. This is not limited to KICTANet
> though. Most mailing lists lack intuitive usability.
>
> Seeing there are a good number of us here in design, web development and
> usability, it would be interesting to know if there are better options out
> there that this community can benefit from. If not, what about organizing
> (not necessarily through KICTANet) of a design hackathon to improve this.
>
> Moses.
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