There's been some frustration voiced about the three mailing list system, again. I say again because there was a plan to migrate the mailing lists to a unified solution this summer, but it fell by the wayside as, presumably, the mailing list maintainer got busy. But now it's being brought up again. I thought we'd have a unified discussion for it instead of putting it in replies to other things.
(I'd like to link you to the appropriate discussions from this summer, but since they're split among multiple archives it's difficult. Look in your history, or the archives' history, for "Future of Agora", "might as well try for a show of hands" and "Rule Improvements".) 1) OFF, BUS, and DIS. The split is useful, yes, but also a relic. One reason we maintain this split (besides an incredible conservatism) is because it prevents accidental action-taking or burying actions in mounds of discussion. There's probably better solutions to this though. 2) Combining BUS and DIS. I'm not against this, but would like some sort of Subject convention that makes it remain easy to find office-relevant information. 3) The /other/ discussion forum: IRC. We're still using IRC. I'm 24, and the fact that I know what IRC is is an anomaly. We're not going to bring any youngsters into the IRC fold, especially when much nicer IRC-like solutions like Discord and Slack dominate. Speaking of, I saw that BlogNomic has a Slack and wondered what it'd be like to have a unified Slack/Discord for nomics. For those of you unfamiliar: you have a server with some number of text and voice channels. Slack's very popular among tech and freelance professionals, and Discord is very popular among gamers/them youths. Both are accessible from websites, downloadable clients, and smartphone apps. We could co-operate with BlogNomic and have a unified Nomic server with channels for each nomic, as well as a general channel. No longer fragmented kingdoms of yore.
