We're re-imagining mailing lists and community discourse for the age of social media.

Murmur is a new tool for group communication that blends concepts from mailing lists, forums, and social media. Now members can choose how they receive emails and collaboratively moderate discussion.

Murmur is a research project from the Haystack Group at MIT CSAIL.

Publications

Amy X. Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman, David R. Karger. Mailing Lists: Why Are They Still Here, What’s Wrong With Them, and How Can We Fix Them? In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015). Seoul, Korea. April 2015.
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Code

Check out our Github page to run your own version, report an issue, see what we're currently working on, or get involved!


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