>From the surface, yes they do look the similar but Rust site also keeps track of the views, mentions, trending topic,
On the other hand, we could still be using IRC instead of Slack/Gitter. It's good experience that "old" people see through these differences but new users would be expecting these more and more. - Abhinav On Feb 6, 2017 2:47 PM, "Jay McCarthy" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am an old fart. When I look at the Rust discourse [1], the UI looks > exactly the same to me as our mailing list interface [2]. When I look > at the Discourse advertisements, it talks about stuff like notifying > you by email when there are messages... which is exactly what a > mailing list does all the time. Can you help an old person understand > why this is better? > > Jay > > 1. https://internals.rust-lang.org > 2. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/racket-users > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Abhinav Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello @racket team! > > > > I find myself getting more and more involved with lisps and functional > > programming in general, especially Julia and Racket. I'd like to know > your > > opinions on upgrading from the mailing list and moving to a more dynamic > and > > open source platform for discussion like http://www.discourse.org/ > > > > This is used for Rust as well as Julia programming language discussions > and > > the content is quite readily available to discover as opposed to the > mailing > > lists. > > > > - Best, > > Abhinav > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Racket Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/efade60f- > 0bac-4711-b86c-3b2e9ce5328f%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy > Associate Professor > PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, > for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. > And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." > - D&C 64:33 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAAub%2BCf%3D5-tUyK%3DqnmcLvv0O4ZGQpiDpJ6gv7MVQs2wEZiYt6Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
