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On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 8:51:05 AM UTC+7, Evan wrote:
>
> I recently talked with folks who moderate the various Elm discussion 
> forums about the challenges that come up and how we can do better.
>
> The short version is: *we should start migrating more discussion 
> to /r/elm <https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/>.*
>
> Now the long version!
>
>
> How Things Are Now
>
> Long-form discussion is split between elm-discuss and /r/elm 
> <https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/>. There are a lot of regulars that spend 
> more time on elm-discuss, but I think it's fair to say that /r/elm is much 
> more easily accessible and "public facing" for newcomers. This creates some 
> problems.
>
> Problems with elm-discuss:
>
>    - Threads are linear, so it's hard for people to branch off into 
>    sub-discussions.
>    - There's no voting mechanism in elm-discuss, so topics are sorted by 
>    "are people posting?" not by "do people care?"
>    - Moderation to avoid spam is more difficult. All new users are 
>    moderated by default to avoid those awful spam robots that Google Groups 
>    does not catch.
>    - It goes to people's already full inboxes. If you change this, you 
>    use the online interface, which is not amazing.
>    
> Problems from having two long-form forums:
>
>    - Lots of valuable expertise *only* lives on elm-discuss. When new 
>    folks come to /r/elm, there are not as many folks with as much production 
>    experience.
>    - Blog posts (frequently shared on /r/elm) miss out on a lot of 
>    valuable feedback.
>    
>
> How Things Could Be
>
> Right now I'm just suggesting that folks who are regulars here get on 
> /r/elm and see if you like it. I'd like to start by shifting the center of 
> gravity for community discussion.
>
> Longer term though, things could look more like how Rust does it. It seems 
> like /r/rust <https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/> is the center of gravity 
> for community discussion. See their sidebar! They moderate content well and 
> have 
> some laughs 
> <https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5l08o5/rust_is_literally_haskell/>. 
> (I personally think it's very important for moderators to be active in 
> guiding people towards *friendly* discussion! That's super hard on 
> elm-discuss.)
>
> They also have an interesting approach to answering beginner questions 
> <https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5ljizz/is_there_a_rust_equivalent_to_rlearnpython/>
>  that 
> I think it'd be good to try out!
>

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