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/ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Elm Discuss" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
