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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! > -- 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.
