A few things I think are worth considering: a. If r/golang is deleted, what is going to stop someone else from creating another go oriented subreddit? And if this happens, will people like bradfitz having less control be a good thing?
Sure, a new subreddit might not grow as quickly without any official support, but I doubt it will just go away and never reappear in some shape or form, and I think giving up the moderation to any random person who creates the subreddit is a bad idea. b. Forums and reddit serve a different purpose for me. Something like https://golangnews.com/ could replace what I get out of reddit, but a forum won't. I use reddit becuase it is a great place to discover articles that others are voting on in some capacity to help filter the bad from the good. I also appreciate it as an author as a way to help share my own writing. The reddit community might be toxic in a lot of ways, but I suspect that getting 25k+ people to create an account on a new service is going to be hard, especially if that new service has the risk of similar issues. The only way I see an alternative option working is if it is officially maintained by the Go team in some way, and I really would dislike seeing r/golang shut down without a viable alternative. Having said all of that, I am not opposed to a change, and I think a more viable path to making a change would be: 1. Don't delete the subreddit, but stop officially supporting it (ie delete links to it on github or wherever else) 2. Come up with a viable & trustworthy alternative and release it 3. Start pointing people to the alternative, including in the subreddit (stickied post?), but don't delete the subreddit. Just my 2 cents. - Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
