What's the story on importing old Google groups messages? Do we lose years
of searchable history?

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:17 PM, OvermindDL1 <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Elixir forum (which has an Elm section if anyone wants to give it a
> try) has resolved its mailing list oddities fairly well now and can be used
> 'as' a mailing list in addition to a forum, so it satisfies both sides
> quite well now.  An Elm Forum could do the same.
>
>
> On Friday, November 25, 2016 at 3:54:17 PM UTC-7, Juan Soto wrote:
>>
>> In Elixir, we moved to a Discourse forum. Works pretty well though I
>> assume there was some kickback by people who like mailing lists but in
>> general people are happy.
>>
>> On Friday, November 25, 2016 at 3:45:33 PM UTC-5, W. Brian Gourlie wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, so there 's clearly a desire for something better, but some folks
>>> prefer google groups as a mailing list.  Elm makes a deliberate appeal to
>>> ease-of-use and simplicity, which is at odds with using google groups as a
>>> community forum.
>>>
>>> Past discussions aside, I think it's worth revisiting.
>>>
>>> On Friday, November 25, 2016 at 1:21:29 PM UTC-6, Janis Voigtländer
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Suggestion: Use the google group's search facility to check whether the
>>>> thing you propose has been discussed before. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Hint: It's the case, and I think that even the "discourse" suggestion
>>>> was made and discussed then.
>>>>
>>>> Am 25.11.2016 um 20:04 schrieb W. Brian Gourlie <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>> I find google groups to be a poor experience on many different levels,
>>>> and I'm wondering if there is any motivation for using it other than "it's
>>>> free and easy."  If there is any interest in an alternative, I would be
>>>> willing to set up a discourse instance, if only temporarily, to see if
>>>> people may prefer that instead.  It's much better suited for technical
>>>> discussion as it supports markdown and syntax highlighting, and is
>>>> generally a much better UX.
>>>>
>>>> If you haven't heard of discourse, you can get an idea of what it is by
>>>> checking out the rustlang forums: https://users.rust-lang.org/
>>>>
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