If any non-email system is adopted, it will exclude me, and probably many other contributors to this list. A mailing list is an appropriate and useful format. "Discussion systems" are not.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 1:36 PM Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've pitched this before but gotten little feedback (especially positive > feedback), but I think a Reddit-style forum would be a pretty vast > improvement. We could easily start a python_ideas subreddit to try it out. > > I know the google group presents threaded conversations, but I've run into > enough bugs trying to use that platform that I now only interact with > python-ideas via my gmail account, and threads are flattened here. Also, a > Reddit-style forum has voting built in. As a bonus, we can write moderation > bots and present useful info in the side-bar. > > If people find Reddit distasteful or otherwise a bad idea, maybe we can > find some forum software that replicates the feature set of Reddit and host > it ourselves? > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 10:41 AM James Lu <jam...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> A lot of the traffic on this email list is people saying “I don’t >> understand” or “that’s not what I meant” or trying to re-explain. A lot of >> “-1”s are really “I don’t see the usefulness of this”. >> >> >> So I want an open discussion on: How can we communicate clearer? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list >> Python-ideas@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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