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"...?
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