I understand the principle of wanting to avoid Twitter and Reddit. I feel pretty conflicted about those two services myself. But the fact remains that /r/elm is going to be a place that people go to ask questions, and if nobody is there to answer them we're giving people a really bad experience.
See also: the Go team tried to disown /r/golang for similar reasons last month. It caused a big stir and they ended up changing moderators and dropping the "official forum" status. Once people who were willing to moderate and contribute stepped up, it improved by leaps and bounds. Even the people who wanted to see it retired have remarked on the change in only half a month. I think /r/elm could see similar improvement. Bottom line for me: the services that we build on are important, but not as important as the communities we create. Communities can move around despite services coming and going. Right now we have elm-discuss, Slack, and /r/elm. Discourse is awesome, but as Richard pointed out it would only fragment those fora further. On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 11:38:07 AM UTC-5, Charlie Koster wrote: > > Mark, Reddit is what you make of it. Subreddits (such as /r/elm) are > self-moderated and it's easy enough to unsubscribe from the bad ones. I > think you can be rest assured that /r/elm will be devoid of hate speech. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TCEJyftjMes/WG0ksv5bN8I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/Rk0Ef1fqqmoU5HyXMX3_OPwQaNMftJK1gCLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-01-04%2Bat%2B10.36.52%2BAM.png> > > > Those are some of my subscriptions and I don't encounter any hate speech > at all. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
