I like Google Groups as a direct alternative to SF mailing lists.
Discourse <https://www.discourse.org/> is a different paradigm for handling
large group discussions in a public forum. It can send email notifications
and accept email replies, enabling it to function as a mailing list
alternative at some level. It also has a bunch of other features that are
useful for group discussions like community moderation, topic
summarization, upvoting, and much more <https://www.discourse.org/about/>.
As an example, Rust has two Discourse forums: one for users and another
development/design discussions:
https://users.rust-lang.org/
https://internals.rust-lang.org/
Thomas Van Doren
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On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Jeff Hammond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Google groups have always worked great for me, but I've heard of people
> who struggle to subscribe (which has never been proven to be anything other
> than user error, but frequent user errors may imply bad design).
>
> Some people like Slack. Not sure if it would work for this group.
>
> $0.0178
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 4, 2016, Brad Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Josh --
>>
>> > They use groups.io, which has the usual
>> > calender and multiple group features plus integration features such as
>> with
>> > Trello.
>>
>> This is an interesting option, thanks for passing it along. I'm not
>> familiar with groups.io other than what I read clicking through their
>> pages based on this mail. Does anyone else on the list have firsthand
>> experience with it?
>>
>> On the plus side, it's clearly much more modern and flexible than
>> SourceForge's mailman-based mailing lists. On the neutral-to-minus side,
>> it looks like the free plans rely on ad-based revenue (one of the common
>> complaints about SourceForge mailing lists) and little is said about spam
>> filtering (the second most common complaint). And as Joshua points out
>> there isn't an obvious path for transferring existing mailman-based
>> lists/archives over (though maybe there's an inobvious path).
>>
>>
>> > P.S. A discussion about their planned package manager:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/247
>> >
>> > They like Go's approach, with dependencies listed in the source files,
>> but
>> > with more consciousness of centralizing some of them in a configuration
>> > folder and predownloading for machines with limited network access.
>> That's
>> > what I remember at least.
>>
>> I can't recall whether this has come up in/around this thread, but there's
>> a (rough) draft CHIP for a Chapel package manager here:
>>
>> https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/master/doc/chips/9.rst
>>
>> Comments and feedback welcome.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
>>
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