On 5/5/21 10:33 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
I, for one, wish more mailing lists did have newsgroup access (I also
wish for the demise of Google Groups, but short of a large explosive in
Mountain View, doubt that will come to pass). Instead everything is being
splintered into smaller and smaller forums which many won't keep following.
And if it web-based, that is even worse -- having to refresh pages for each
message read, limited to their editors which tend not to preserve
formatting, etc.
Splintering is a real problem that a lot of projects face. Of course
you want to have a presence on forums that are comfortable for people,
but these days it's typical to have, like Python does, mailing lists,
newsgroup, forum software (discuss.python.org), chat channels, bug
trackers, github, change proposals on a website (PEPs), and so on, as
well as busy "external" sites like the Python DIscord server.
I'm struggling with that for a much smaller project, ain't easy to keep
collective knowledge like this organized and findable without asking
everybody to participate in everything, which (a) is impossible and (b)
the reason for multiple approaches in the first place - some won't do
mailing lists, some won't do forums, etc.
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