Agreed. 21 year reader here. It's been sad to see this end.
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM Federico Miyara <fmiy...@fceia.unr.edu.ar> wrote: > > Dear Martijn, > > I'm one of those longtimers (at least 12 years) and in that period I've > read nearly 2500 messages. If asked I would prefer that the list were > kept. I probably wouldn't subscribe (or, rather, register) to GitHub > since I don't fully agree with the terms and conditions and I haven't a > specific need (such as if I were really involved in a development > project). But I understand that the spam issue may be quite bothersome. > > Best regards, > > Federico Miyara > > > On 15/6/2025 16:15, Martijn van Beurden wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Until a few years ago, mailing lists were the primary tool for > > communicating on the development FLAC and other Xiph projects. > > However, for FLAC, discussions have moved mostly to GitHub. Other Xiph > > project mailing lists have also mostly fallen silent. Spam is however > > still as much an issue as ever. if not worse with the advent of LLMs. > > Maintenance of those lists is therefore a burden that is increasingly > > disproportional to their use. > > > > So, there is a proposal to close the flac and flac-dev mailing lists. > > For the flac mailing list (for user questions) I'd say that is a done > > deal: nothing of much value happens there anymore. The flac-dev > > mailing list however has quite a few longtimers listening in and > > occasionally replying. This is especially valuable to have different > > perspectives when a new feature or functional changes get proposed. > > I'd like to know whether you would be willing to move over to GitHub > > discussions. GitHub would be the first choice because most discussions > > already happen there anyway. > > > > I'd like to hear some opinions on this matter. > > > > Kind regards, Martijn van Beurden > > _______________________________________________ > > flac-dev mailing list -- flac-dev@xiph.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to flac-dev-le...@xiph.org > > > -- > Este correo electrónico ha sido analizado en busca de virus por el > software antivirus de Avast. > www.avast.com > _______________________________________________ > flac-dev mailing list -- flac-dev@xiph.org > To unsubscribe send an email to flac-dev-le...@xiph.org >
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