Re: [rust-dev] [OT] discourse bridge [was: rust-dev will be shut down soon]

2015-01-22 Thread Richo Healey
On 22/01/15 11:59 -0800, Brian Anderson wrote: You likely have already noticed, but traffic to rust-dev has decreased dramatically in recent months. This was a result of natural changes in project coordination at first, and then an intentional effort to phase out the list. For anyone else

Re: [rust-dev] [OT] discourse bridge [was: rust-dev will be shut down soon]

2015-01-22 Thread Bryan Bell
The best I found was to subscribe to watch the topics I'm interested in. I went to http://discuss.rust-lang.org/users/[username]/preferences and under Categories - Watched added the ones I was interested in. It'll email you whenever there's a new topic or reply in any of those categories. On

Re: [rust-dev] [OT] discourse bridge [was: rust-dev will be shut down soon]

2015-01-22 Thread Nicholas Allegra
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Richo Healey ri...@psych0tik.net wrote: This comes up a lot (I found a lot of threads on meta.discourse.com about it) but the conclusion seems to be that reply-by-email is supported, but in general, email/nntp is not a particularly supported way to browse.

Re: [rust-dev] rust-dev will be shut down soon

2015-01-22 Thread Tomi Pieviläinen
My last comment about visibility of the discourse pretty much immediately side-tracked into the merits and flaws of mailing lists... But nobody really answered whether the absence of links from the Rust homepage to the discourse was intentional. Does internal use then mean that it is meant only

[rust-dev] rust-dev will be shut down soon

2015-01-22 Thread Brian Anderson
You likely have already noticed, but traffic to rust-dev has decreased dramatically in recent months. This was a result of natural changes in project coordination at first, and then an intentional effort to phase out the list. In the beginning of the project there were only two places to talk