I can't speak to Evan's original intent in posting, but that's what I'd like to see people do.
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Mark Hamburg <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 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.
