We use Google Groups for zotero-dev. I'm not a huge fan, but I don't
know if there's a better alternative.
My biggest complaints:
- Spam isn't an issue for us, since we moderate messages from new users.
(Anyone can join without moderation.) But there's a pretty big flaw. It
normally sends us a notification when there's a message from a new user,
so we can approve messages fairly quickly. But If Google thinks a
message is spam, even from a whitelisted member with a Gmail address
who's posted before (and who happens to be, say, the developer of a
major third-party Zotero add-on), it will send the message to the
moderation queue without notification, where it can sit unnoticed for
days. Checking the interface just now, I found a message from yesterday
that I didn't receive a notification for. There's a setting to have it
always send a notification, but that has never worked for me.
- The default hash URLs are disconcerting, since who knows if they'll
remain functional after future site changes. You can get non-hash URLs,
but you have to get them manually from a menu.
- The admin interface isn't accessible via mobile, so you have to switch
to the full site, which is hard to navigate on a phone.
They rolled out a new interface recently, though, so there may actually
be people there who work on it, and some of these things might be fixed
at some point.
On 8/22/13 12:12 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
My solution to the spam problem (on the bibo list) was to moderate
membership (something I guess we can't do now). This requires people
to write a short description of why they're joining, and for an admin
to approve it. I can also force moderation on new member posts,
although that's not generally necessary.
Bruce
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Robert Knight
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
>> My main worry is be that Google might shuts down Google Groups
at some
>> point
>
> This is always some risk but Google does actively use Google
Groups itself
> for development mailing lists for Blink, Chrome and Go so
> the situation isn't the same as it was with Reader for example.
Also, is this still relevant? I don't administer a Google Group, so I
don't know if things have improved since 2009.
http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jquery-en/_GgR8UkoqpE
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/jquery-en/_GgR8UkoqpE>
Rintze
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