So, this is really about "please go look at /r/elm too"? Mark
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 11:08 AM, [email protected] 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 <[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. -- 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.
