> The idea of an online user forum would be that people with an interest in Rust can read in the user forum which is easier to peruse than some mail list archive. Asking and getting answers seems to work more fluently.
I agree with the principle, but we have yet to identify what users would actually want to peruse in a discussion forum. For questions, we have StackOverflow. For keeping up with the cool projects that the community is working on, we have reddit. Piggybacking on established platforms will lead to easier discoverability and broader readership. Which isn't to say that a discussion forum won't be warranted sometime in the future, but for now we're getting along quite well with the free alternatives provided by the broader web. On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The idea of an online user forum would be that people with an interest > in Rust can read in the user forum which is easier to peruse than some mail > list archive. Asking and getting answers seems to work more fluently. > > There is really hell going on on the Go users forum: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=de#!forum/golang-nuts An online forum > seems to intensivy people's interest in some language. But it's certainly > your language and your decision what you want to do. > > Regards, Oliver > > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 03. Dezember 2013 um 07:35 Uhr > *Von:* "Eric Reed" <[email protected]> > *An:* "David Piepgrass" <[email protected]> > *Cc:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Betreff:* Re: [rust-dev] Rust forum > Well there's always r/rust/ <http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/>. It usually > works pretty well. > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:45 PM, David Piepgrass <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> On 02/12/2013 16:21, David Piepgrass wrote: >> >>> > That would be so. much. better. than a mailing list. >>> >>> Hi. Could you expand on this? I don?t necessarily disagree, but as the >>> one proposing change it?s up to you to convince everyone else :) >>> >>> -- >>> Simon Sapin >> >> >> Okay, well, I've never liked mailing lists at all, because: >> >> 1. In non-digest mode, My inbox gets flooded. >> 2. In digest mode, it's quite inconvenient to write a reply, having to >> cut out all the messages that I don't want to reply to and manually edit >> the subject line. Also, unrelated messages are grouped together while >> threads are broken apart, making discussions harder to follow. >> 3. In email I don't get a threaded view. If I go to mailing list archives >> to see a threaded view, I can't reply. >> 4. I have to manually watch for replies to my messages or to threads I'm >> following. If someone mentions my name (not that they would), I won't be >> notified. >> >> In contrast, Discourse has a variety of email notification options. I >> don't know if those options are enough to please everybody, but you can >> probably configure it to notify you about all posts, which makes it >> essentially equivalent to a mailing list. It supports reply by email, so >> those that prefer a mailing list can still pretend it's a mailing list. >> Currently I'm getting an shrunk digest of Discourse Meta--by email I only >> get a subset of all messages, auto-selected by Discourse, whatever it >> thinks is interesting. That's good for me: I really don't want to see every >> message. >> >> Plus, a mailing list offers less privacy as it mandates publishing your >> email address. That's not a big deal for me personally, but do you really >> want to require that from every Rust user? >> >> (btw, if I'm wrong about any of the above points, I promise there are >> lots of other netizens out there who have the same misconception(s), so >> many of them will avoid mailing lists. The fact that y'all are talking to >> me on a mailing list suggests that the disadvantages of a mailing list are >> not a big deal *to you*, but as for those who aren't participating, you >> can't conclude *they* prefer mailing lists.) >> >> And like mailing lists, Discourse also supports private messages. >> >> I don't understand why Paul mentioned GPG. You want to encrypt messages >> to a public mailing list? You can sign messages, but surely almost no one >> actually checks the signature, and I'd be surprised if Discourse didn't >> offer some built-in evidence of identity (surely it's not like email in >> letting you spoof the sender name easily?). >> >> I heard discourse supports attachments, just that you may have to go to >> the forum to attach or download them (rather than by email). >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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