TL;DR: Go to https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T
and sign up for Racket Discourse (https://racket.discourse.group/) # Thoughts behind the move: Over time, it has become steadily more apparent that email-only mailing lists are an outdated communication medium for the Racket community. More recent arrivals in our community have generally chosen other platforms like slack or discord to carry on discussions. As a result, the signal-to-noise ratio of the racket users mailing list has dropped below the level of viability. In short, it’s time to give up on the mailing list. After a good deal of research, it looks like there’s room for a whole bunch of discussion platforms for Racket, but it also seems as though there should be a “permanent” one; it should be archived, it should be searchable in its entirety, and it should not tie us to someone else’s plan to monetize user data. Given these criteria, the winner is Discourse, an open-source messaging platform built by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron. It has a reasonable business model (they host projects like ours unless they get really big, whereupon you can either host it yourself or pay them to do it); it’s widely used by other language communities; and it appears to do most of what we want. # So where can I sign up? Sign up here: https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T The discourse platform has been in a “soft opening” phase for about two weeks now, since RacketCon, and we have about a hundred users. You’re receiving this message because we’d like to have *YOU* there as well. # Can I still receive messages like a mailing list? Yes, you can. I have it enabled myself! To use discord as a mailing-list: Sign up, go to Preferences > Email, and tick “Enable mailing list mode'. Yours, John Clements & Stephen De Gabrielle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/9d080367-1b70-4818-8e76-8c6714db404c%40mtasv.net.
