I'm a bit reluctant of using Reddit for this: 1. It's hard to keep things sorted by topic. One of the main reasons for moving away from groups is that we could separate feature requests from newbie help from advanced help from library announcements. You can't do that on reddit.
2. It's susceptible to spam, as we've already seen on that reddit (though moderators take care of it well enough). 3. An up/downvotes based system is a terrible way to seem friendly to newcomers. Beginner questions on r/elm often get downvoted, and that's really problematic. 4. No mailing-list capabilities, as far as I know. 5. My main reason: reddit is susceptible to brigading/trolling/etc. An angry type-enthusiast wants to rant about the lack of typeclasses? Someone thinks functional programmers are all elitist jerks and wants to trash them? Stuff like this happens on both /r/haskell and /r/elm. It's not that these things never happen on Discourse or groups, but people are a lot more likely to stumble across /r/elm on Reddit without being part of the community, and would be able to comment without needing to go through the effort of making an account. There can be trolls on Google-groups and Discourse, but it seems less likely that someone will just stumble across it and decide to be abusive. These problems are all ones that can be dealt with, but I think we'd need to deal with them before we moved everything to /r/elm. On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 1:46 PM, OvermindDL1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Another +1 for reddit here, I don't use the mailing list aspects of things > but for one who does reddit would be a -1, but there are so many > aggregators for reddit that I've no doubt a mailing list thing is made by > someone or a hundred. > > > On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 12:09:40 AM UTC-7, Robin Heggelund > Hansen wrote: >> >> Fine by me. I check Reddit as often as I check this mailing list :) >> >> lørdag 26. november 2016 03.34.07 UTC+1 skrev Richard Feldman følgende: >>> >>> We've talked in the past about moving to https://reddit.com/r/elm - in >>> part for threaded discussions and voting, but also more to have things more >>> centralized. >>> >>> After all, /r/elm is still going to exist whether there's additionally a >>> Google Group, a Discourse forum, etc. It'd be nice to have only one board >>> to check. >>> >>> What do people think? >>> >>> -- > 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.
