Hey, Sorry for the late reply to the mailing list, been busy over the weekend.
> I recall the days when I'd wake up to a debian-user list with 300+ > messages. > > Many of them had nothing to do with Debian, but everything to do with > generating community. > > Flame wars were magnificent, with wrecks, of what were once human > beings, lying everywhere. > > And from that, the conversations that did bear on Debian were vibrant > with ideas generated that a development community could thrive on. > > Debian-user isn't as much as a sad shadow of itself, now. > > Latest postings bear on `why are there no postings on this list any > more?' I don't deny that a code of conduct causes issues with communities, especially if it is very strict, people can be too scared to contribute to discussions. However, I do not believe the death of mailing lists are due to code of conducts. There's no doubt that mailing lists and IRC have been increasing more rare within the open source community. A larger and larger portion of open source projects are using Discord, or another proprietary, insecure, privacy invasive platform. It has gotten to the point where there is quite a few open source projects which are exclusively on Discord. I can use the example of Void Linux which shutdown their mailing list and exclusively uses Github. I don't know Debian's communication style, nor can I say this is why their mailing list went quiet, but I can say with quite a lot of certainty that people moving away from open solutions and standardising on a few or a single proprietary platform for convenience is one of the major reasons mailing list and also IRC, are becoming ever more quiet. Take care, -- Polarian Jabber/XMPP: [email protected]
