So, this is really about "please go look at /r/elm too"? Mark
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 11:08 AM, br...@brianthicks.com wrote: > > 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 <martindeme...@gmail.com> 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 <mhamburg...@gmail.com> 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 <dandylio...@gmail.com> 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 elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> 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 elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 >> elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
