I believe I recall hearing that the content of the mailing list is crawlable bots yes? In this case that’s a strong value add to the community as I believe it’s on our best interest that as much of the troubleshooting conversations, and answers, are indexable by services like ChatGPT and Claude. Ai conversations at the go-to source for everyone/engineers of the future and if we isolate all of the rich conversation away from the eyes of those platforms we’re only hurting ourselves.
I’m a fan of the expediency and organization of slack, but if it’s not replicated online and indexable we’re missing the future. -Andrew Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 5, 2025, at 10:07 PM, James Daugherty > <jdaughe...@jdresources.net.invalid> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > In this past week's developer meeting, we discussed the decline of > stackoverflow ( > https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/). The > ASF provides us a users mailing list and we would like to transition grails > questions to the mailing list. We intend to keep slack as an alternative > means of communication and log github discussions to the users mailing list > too. > > Is there any disagreement to this proposal? The idea is we'll remove > references to stack overflow on our website & suggest people ask questions > on the users mailing list, github discussions, or slack instead. > > -James
