Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-08-03 Thread Diggory Hardy
I like the mailing list for news items: new releases, This Week in Rust, RFCs for discussion, etc. Maybe replace it with a news-only list where all posts are moderated? This is one thing both discourse and RFCs don't seem to be good at: summarised news (e.g. notifications on new

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-08-02 Thread Eric Christopher
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Gulshan Singh gsingh_2...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm against the mailing list partially because I don't think email is the best way to have these types of discussions anymore, and partially because Email is handy because it has a familiar UI and a good searchable

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-08-01 Thread Steve Klabnik
I actually find mailing lists to have a perfectly serviceable UI, but I recognize that others don't. I'm just really an old man at heart... ___ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-08-01 Thread Kevin Cantu
Ditto. /me scratches neck beard Kevin On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Steve Klabnik st...@steveklabnik.com wrote: I actually find mailing lists to have a perfectly serviceable UI, but I recognize that others don't. I'm just really an old man at heart...

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-08-01 Thread Blaine Pace
Not to get the +1! ball rolling too far, but I find the mailing list the most convenient for keeping up with Rust development as well. On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Kevin Cantu m...@kevincantu.org wrote: Ditto. /me scratches neck beard Kevin On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Steve

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-08-01 Thread Sean McArthur
I went into my account settings for the Rust Discourse, and fiddled with the email notifications such that I get emails for all topics, and replying to the emails works just as with a mailing list. I quite like the HTML emails that are sent also, as it makes code and links and such much easier to

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-08-01 Thread Gulshan Singh
I'm against the mailing list partially because I don't think email is the best way to have these types of discussions anymore, and partially because the mailing list instance running this list stores passwords in plaintext (since it keeps emailing me my password in plaintext). On Fri, Aug 1,

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-07-31 Thread Brian Anderson
Here's the current state of official project support for various forums: * discourse.rust-lang.org is for *discussion of the development of Rust itself*. It is maintained by Mozilla. * r/rust is for user discussion. It is maintained by the community. * rust-dev is for user discussion. It is

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-07-31 Thread Kevin Cantu
That link didn't work for me, but this does: http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/about-this-forum-please-read/6 Kevin :) On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Brian Anderson bander...@mozilla.com wrote: Here's the current state of official project support for various forums: *

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-07-31 Thread Evan G
The correct link is http://discuss.rust-lang.org On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Brian Anderson bander...@mozilla.com wrote: Here's the current state of official project support for various forums: * discourse.rust-lang.org is for *discussion of the development of Rust itself*. It is

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-07-31 Thread Ilya Dmitrichenko
I think the point of discourse is that it provides a far better user interface then the mailing list does. Mailing lists are pretty backward in this day an age. The basics are that you can tag discussions and use backticks to quote code etc. Other smart things you can probably implement is

[rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-07-30 Thread Tobias Müller
Hello, I'm following rust for quite a while, but the discussions are more and more distributed between different places. The mailing list was probably first, then with more user attention reddit and StackOverflow, and now the discourse forum. I understand that StackOverflow and Reddit are more

Re: [rust-dev] Place for discussions

2014-07-30 Thread Evan G
Slightly OT, but there are user setting switches you can set in Discourse that will make it act more like an email list. On Jul 30, 2014 8:08 PM, Tobias Müller trop...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hello, I'm following rust for quite a while, but the discussions are more and more distributed between