I agree for all the same reasons, and I'll add that threaded discussions go off-topic quickly and can be hard to follow.
Someone asked about migration from google-groups to discourse; Some cursory searching shows that it's possible, however, google groups doesn't have an export mechanism so it involves scraping. See here <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-import-google-groups-to-discourse/47074> for details. It looks like it would be rather messy, but the fact that google groups doesn't support exporting is another compelling reason to switch IMO. Discourse is a fine piece of software, developed by a company co-founded by Jeff Atwood (also co-founder of Stack Overflow). While not designed specifically for programming discussion, it certainly accommodates it well. Good example here <https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-do-i-use-any-to-disambiguate-between-multiple-user-defined-structs/8098> . On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 4:10:15 PM UTC-6, Joey Eremondi wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
