I have long wondered what the point is of the Lists and Boards dealing with the same topic being separate. People use them in a very similar way - it just depends which they come across first. Why not amalgamate them, or at least amalgamate the List archives with the MB archives? That way everyone would benefit because they would immediately see everything rather than only what happens to have been started via a List or what happens to have been started via a Board? Anne ANGUS List and Message Board Administrator

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 10:23 PM, Anne Burgess via LISTOWNERS <[email protected]> wrote: > I have long wondered what the point is of the Lists and Boards dealing with > the same topic being separate. People use them in a very similar way - it > just depends which they come across first. Sure. At the time Rootsweb created the boards however, unifying them wasn't possible. Now there are tested systems such as Discourse (discourse.org) which could do that very well. > Why not amalgamate them, or at least amalgamate the List archives with the > MB archives? That way everyone would benefit because they would immediately > see everything rather than only what happens to have been started via a List > or what happens to have been started via a Board? > > Anne > ANGUS List and Message Board Administrator Brian Leverich was thinking about doing that before selling Rootsweb, but I don't think Ancestry was interested. Whether or not they are evaluating that now, who can say? In my testing of Discourse, I found the search functions less than stellar. That is what I *love* about lists -- our fantastic archives. If they can get search working well, and figure out a way to make the change not too painful, I would welcome it. Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez