I would argue very strongly against killing elm-discuss. I'm a heavy reddit user, and I think it simply lacks the features necessary to support mailing-list-style discussions:
1. if you subscribe to a lot of subreddits, there is no guarantee you'll be shown new posts from /r/elm in your front page. gmail lets me see a list of folders in my sidebar with unread-thread counts for each, so I never have to think about specifically opening up elm-discuss to check if something new has been posted 2. there is no good way to see the messages you have and haven't already read within a thread. (there are browser plugins that try to help with this but don't do a particularly good job; it's a hard problem to solve from the outside) 3. you get a notification if someone replies to you, but not if someone replies to that reply. 4. searching through old conversation is really hard martin On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Mark Hamburg <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that this only works if elm-discuss gets killed. It might, > however, be necessary to also kill elm-dev because the leakage of > elm-discuss traffic over into elm-dev will likely become much worse if > elm-discuss goes away. > > Mark > > On Jan 4, 2017, at 9:34 AM, Rex van der Spuy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 12:05:33 PM UTC-5, Brian Hicks wrote: >> >> the fact remains that /r/elm is going to be a place that people go to ask >> questions, and if nobody is there to answer them we're giving people a >> really bad experience. >> >> > That was my problem: When I started learning Elm I first posted questions > on /r/elm. > But, I soon found I received many more, and better, replies here on > elm-discuss, so I hardly visit /r/elm anymore. > > I think for this move to work need to somehow pull the plug on elm-discuss. > Maybe we should set a kill date, and then after that just lock down this > list for good with a big sign saying "Please visit /r/elm"...? > > -- > 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.
