* Multiple display modes: [hierarchical](/forumpost/46c8eb54e8?t=h),
[chronological](/forumpost/46c8eb54e8?t=c),
[unformatted](/forumpost/46c8eb54e8?t=r), or
[on a timeline](/timeline?ss=v&y=f&n=20&vfx&nsm).
* Improved privacy protections. Users can participate with
full anonymity. Or, if you choose to sign in, the system
never reveals your email address to other users.
never reveals your email address to other users. (The
obligatory exception: administrators can see subscribers'
email addresses.)
* The entire history of discussion can be cloned and downloaded
for use off-line.
* The forum seems to work better than email on mobile
devices.
* The Forum software works with any web server.
(MailMan, which was the software used in the legacy mailing list
apparently requires the use of Apache - or at least *we* were
never able to get it to work with another web server such as
[althttpd][althttpd] used by the rest of the SQLite website.)
[althttpd][] used by the rest of the SQLite website.)
* Automatic back-ups using Fossil's sync mechanism.
* The use of Forum software reduces the SQLite project's
dependence on external software (MailMan) and services
(www.mail-archive.com).
[lemon]: https://sqlite.org/lemon.html
[althttpd]: https://www.sqlite.org/docsrc/doc/trunk/misc/althttpd.md
[althttpd]: https://sqlite.org/althttpd
[md]: /md_rules
[wiki]: /wiki_rules