Sadly, I recommended wait&see before, but I think it's probably time to
move Racket email lists off of Google Groups, and also to resume hosting
the email archives on "racket-lang.org", ASAP.
The last straw is that it looks like at least some posts (perhaps many)
to Racket lists are no longer findable in Google Groups, using Google
search itself.[*]
This is bad for Racket effectiveness, promotion, and history.
Even if this was a fluke, this isn't a good sign. (It's well-known in
industry that Google is willing to cancel even popular services,
sometimes replacing them with unpopular things. It could be that
priorities have already shifted away from Google Groups.)
As for what to move to, it looks like some of the previous self-hosted
setup is probably still there, as hinted at on
"https://lists.racket-lang.org/". It will need someone to do the
sysadmin work for the one-time setup and move, and whatever operations
load is involved with MailMan (vs. the presumably lower load with Google
Groups).
A separate task is recovering the missing years of archive, since around
May 2015. Hopefully, a couple people have complete archives from their
own personal subscriptions, in some format like mbox, and only has to
make sure that no non-public messages got in there, and to check the two
archives against each other (for confidence that nothing was missed).
[*] Yesterday, I tried to link to the canonical copy of a "racket-users"
post from late 2017, and the only Google hits were for
"mail-archive.com", nothing for Google Groups. Even when I went and
copied part of the Subject value from the "mail-archive.com" copy, and
searched for it verbatim on Google. I started to try to see whether
that particular post had simply been deleted from Google Groups, but did
not see a way to navigate by time (other than a very slow infinite
scroll back from today). I then tried some other searches for
"racket-users", and was not getting hits on Google Groups. I didn't
investigate this much. I also just reproduced this problem just now.
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