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
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