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
>
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