Killing elm-discuss is outside the scope of the discussion. The point is to emphasize an underused watering hole, not kill an existing one that works well for a subset of the community.
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Martin DeMello <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 a topic in the Google > Groups "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elm-discuss/rg3fzdyG_VU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
