On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 6:33 PM Sage Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There has been a significant move of general q&a activity away from the 
> mailing lists to the Racket Slack. This is not surprising as communities do 
> change over time and many Open source language communities have moved some or 
> all of their activity to chat systems.
>
>
> Last we talked about it, Racket Slack isn't a paid workspace due to the sheer 
> expense. We can't direct users to search for answers to questions answered 
> before the 10,000th (?) most recent message. Given current activity levels it 
> wasn't terribly long before I was unable to revisit helpful discussions. I'd 
> say about a week?

Currently 10,000 messages goes back to May 13.

> In observance of general FOSS etiquette, I don't want to ask or answer the 
> same question twice. Can we still volunteer answers on the mailing lists 
> whenever we want anyway? I know I'd rather stick to the mailing list so long 
> as we can count on a search feature.

Certainly questions, answers, and discussions on the mailing lists are welcome.

Sam

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