On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 2:38 AM nug get <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear community,
> As a suggestion from my side, how about replacing this mailing group by a
> forum?
>
> pros:
> - potentially build a structured knowledge base that is helpful
> - user-generated how-to-content
> - control notifications
> - not spamming everyone with your new topic that might be interesting only
> to few people
>
> cons:
> -effort to set it up
> - ...?
>
> @Martin, in case you don't want to do the effort, would you allow me to
> set up the "official beancount forum"? should we discuss this further?
>

Adding to the cons:-
- one additional venue for Martin in particular (and perhaps others) to
check, wasting time
- Additional internet ID/password combination, increasing threat surface
- decreased visibility of any particular topic since forums are by nature
segregated

This isn't to vote against the proposal, just putting more context. I
believe forums should NOT involve the dev (especially the dev's time), as
I've seen how much of a time-suck they can be.

A wiki would have most of the pros you list, btw, without requiring dev
time investment.

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