As a group manager, I like the Google Group for general discussion. It
requires relatively little work for me (and I am not able to take on
more, nor do I think Howard is), and has the very great benefit of
stability. Moving to a volunteer-hosted website might offer us some
whiz-bang extra features, but frankly I don't trust volunteer hosting.
What happens when the hosting account expires? Who wants to pay for it
in perpetuity? To me it sounds like asking for trouble, no matter how
good the intentions of those volunteering to host a site for QS may
be. The user support group should be as stable and accessible as
possible, without any more sudden moves.

As for the code and issues of fragmentation happening there, I am all
in favour of doing something to centralize that, and of keeping
discussion of code related matters on a code related forum. This group
should really be for users supporting users. Along those lines, I
would be entirely in favour of moving all the AppleScript related
stuff on this group to a proper code-related site as well. The group
is poorly designed for such a purpose, and it is a pain in the butt to
keep up with all the scripts that get submitted. I'd far rather have a
robust page somewhere that I can just point people to.

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