I agree. Stack Overflow is completely different from a mailing list. Here discussion is encouraged. There, it is penalized and can be edited or deleted.
I suppose we can create our own google group? jeff On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, David Whatley <[email protected]> wrote: > For the record, this is the way I keep abreast of all the heroku things. > Doing away with it is sheer madness. The sort of bad decisionss I saw > coming the sad day Salesforce came into the picture. I warned them... This > is going to change you no matter what they say. And it has. > > David > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 25, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Neil Middleton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In order to play devils advocate here (I'm not saying if I'm on one side > of the fence or the other): > > 1) The group isn't a great archive for problems as the specific problems > tend to be buried in email threads. > 2) For a lot of the problems on here, support.heroku.com is probably the > best place to go. > 3) The StackOverflow tag on SO is remarkably active: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/heroku > 3) Google have already done this with some success: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-appengine/Z6XN_64cA7w > > > Neil > > On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 18:12, Alex Chaffee wrote: > > fIn the latest Heroku Newsletter[1], it says this group will be killed > at the end of April, and suggests instead to go to support.heroku.com > (which is private) or stackoverflow.com. While SO is awesome, is it > really an adequate replacement for this group? I've found that SO is a > great complement to mailing lists but doesn't allow for the same kind > of deep discussion and community building. Worse, it requires active > attention rather than arriving in one's inbox, so the people who are > most likely to have an answer to a question are the least likely to > hear it -- since they're not having any problems. > > Why uproot a productive community (this mailing list) and hope that it > migrates to a new place with a radically different interaction model? > > [1] > http://lists.heroku.com/t/ViewEmail/r/6DFC781E555FD71E/CEC5941F8B0A6F4BC5EC08CADFFC107B > > -- > Alex Chaffee - [email protected] > http://alexchaffee.com > http://twitter.com/alexch > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en
