Wait, you think that’s high traffic? Gee whiz, the mailing list *has* shrunk, hasn’t it?
Okay, that was not an entirely serious reply, but I do think that in contrast to the discord & slack channels, the discourse is likely to be searchable and at least lightly curated six months from now. Also, if you take a look at the mailing list archive https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ … you’ll see a *shocking* amount of spam. Many of us don’t see this because we have semi-reasonable spam filters, but others are putting up with what looks like more than 50% spam on this list. That’s just not acceptable. John > On Nov 21, 2021, at 14:14, Sorawee Porncharoenwase <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I could be in the minority here, but as an early proponent of Discourse to > replace the mailing list (even before RacketCon), I feel reluctant to join it > after observing it for a while. It has a very high traffic, with almost 100% > of the contents being cross-posted everywhere else (and vice versa) anyway. > > While I appreciate any efforts into promoting the site, I do think different > content has different appropriate mediums. For example, FAQs probably should > go to the wiki. There's no need to clutter anyone's inbox for this type of > content. > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 10:09 AM 'John Clements' via Racket Users > <[email protected]> wrote: > TL;DR: Go to > > https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T > > and sign up for Racket Discourse (https://racket.discourse.group/) > > # Thoughts behind the move: > > Over time, it has become steadily more apparent that email-only > mailing lists are an outdated communication medium for the Racket > community. More recent arrivals in our community have generally > chosen other platforms like slack or discord to carry on discussions. > As a result, the signal-to-noise ratio of the racket users mailing list > has dropped below the level of viability. > > In short, it’s time to give up on the mailing list. > > After a good deal of research, it looks like there’s room for a whole > bunch of discussion platforms for Racket, but it also seems as though > there should be a “permanent” one; it should be archived, it should be > searchable in its entirety, and it should not tie us to someone else’s > plan to monetize user data. > > Given these criteria, the winner is Discourse, an open-source > messaging platform built by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam > Saffron. It has a reasonable business model (they host projects like > ours unless they get really big, whereupon you can either host it > yourself or pay them to do it); it’s widely used by other language > communities; and it appears to do most of what we want. > > # So where can I sign up? > > Sign up here: https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T > > The discourse platform has been in a “soft opening” phase for about > two weeks now, since RacketCon, and we have about a hundred users. > You’re receiving this message because we’d like to have *YOU* there > as well. > > # Can I still receive messages like a mailing list? > > Yes, you can. I have it enabled myself! > To use discord as a mailing-list: > Sign up, go to Preferences > Email, and tick “Enable mailing list mode'. > > Yours, > > John Clements & Stephen De Gabrielle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/9d080367-1b70-4818-8e76-8c6714db404c%40mtasv.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/4b85e73f-4233-4b77-8d06-96b4afdebc24%40mtasv.net.
