On 01/10/23 11:33, dn wrote:
On 10/01/2023 08.46, Stefan Ram wrote:
If anyone is interested: In "comp.misc", there's a discussion
about the use of mailing lists in software development.
Subject: An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms
(I did not create this subject!)
(and I don't read comp.misc)
There is an increasingly relevant question though: how do we 'reach'
as many people as possible, without diluting the (community) value of
responses?
At one time, if you wanted to talk/hear certain folk you felt
compelled to join Twitter (see also AOL, MySpace, Facebook, ...).
Recently many more people have realised that a single, centralised,
(and corporately-owned) 'service' has its down-sides.
If there are too many channels for communication, it increases the
difficulty for any one person to 'keep up', eg python-list and
python-forum.
I remember there was once a hot thread in this python-list discussing
about abandoning this mailing list and move all the discussion to the
forum.
Has anyone known about any status quo about the decision?
I personally strongly preferred mailing list. It is open-format,
open-archive and easy to download and retrive information using your
preferred indexing tools and homemade scripts.
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