Email works very well for this. I do wish my neighborhood association would move to a Google group, because right now it’s a massive CC list. Mail hosts tend not to like that very much, and it’s not the most privacy-minded solution.
Several other active communities I’m a member of are on mailing lists. The one that switched to a forum platform with email notifications of new threads died fast.
Thankfully one of the neighbors “owns” the list and sends out an email with updates any time it changes. You’re supposed to reach everyone by reply-all-ing to the latest one. To unsubscribe, you email the organizer; to subscribe, you ask a neighbor to email them. So, could be better, but could also be worse.
Email works very well for this. I do wish my neighborhood association would move to a Google group, because right now it’s a massive CC list. Mail hosts tend not to like that very much, and it’s not the most privacy-minded solution.
Several other active communities I’m a member of are on mailing lists. The one that switched to a forum platform with email notifications of new threads died fast.
Yeah, cc lists are a nightmare for so many reasons, not least because you can't easily get off/unsubscribe.
Thankfully one of the neighbors “owns” the list and sends out an email with updates any time it changes. You’re supposed to reach everyone by reply-all-ing to the latest one. To unsubscribe, you email the organizer; to subscribe, you ask a neighbor to email them. So, could be better, but could also be worse.