I am not following, Discourse operates in mailing list mode so, if you
wish, nothing changes on your side
On 10/16/14 21:23, Sam S. wrote:
I have been watching stuff here for a few months and traffic is quite
low. There are some interesting discussions but they are few and far
apart.Quality, though. I’ve asked a couple questions and gotten great responses.
Not too fond of forums.Leam
Hey Sam,
I prefer mailing lists because of time constraints. The mail comes in, I
glance at it to see if I can help, and either reply or move on. The same
for when I ask a question, responses come directly to me.
With a forum I have to log in, find the heading, find the subject, and
then see if anything applies.
Mailing lists are much more time economical.
Forums are not bad, but I much prefer mailing lists when first diving
into a subject. The learning feedback is much faster and often of a
higher quality.
Leam
El Friday 17 October 2014, Sam S. escribi:
I am not following, Discourse operates in mailing list mode so, if you
wish, nothing changes on your side
I was going to highlight exactly that. I haven’t tried it as of right
now, but
the cool feature of Discourse (to me) is that hopefully I can have a
mailing
list interface to communicate with people who prefer a web one.
Also note that the mailing list now runs on Mailman, and that the next
major
version will have a more powerful web interface too, so it might be
improved
with just an upgrade of the software on the server:
Article:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Sam S. [email protected]
wrote:
I have been watching stuff here for a few months and traffic is quite
low. There are some interesting discussions but they are few and far
apart.I think it would be good for Ruby to promote a modern forum built in
Ruby.
Technology-wise, I would agree. But do we have a plan on convincing
people to actually use it? And would this mailing list still exist in
its current form, or would it get completely moved to the Discourse
hybrid forum/list? If this list stays a separate entity, we’ll have
even more fragmentation (although with the list’s activity as low as
it is, maybe it doesn’t matter).
When people first learn about Ruby they visit
Ruby Programming Language and then look at
Community … sadly the “lists and
newsgroups” stuff is arcane and old.
Oh, I see some problems there. Sorry to go a little bit off the topic,
but does anyone know who to email to get the wording on ruby-lang.org
and ruby-forum.com changed? For instance,
Mailing Lists says:
| Ruby-Talk is mirrored by Ruby-Forum.com.
This is true, as far as I can tell, but the mirroring obviously no
longer goes the other way. Likewise, https://www.ruby-forum.com/ says:
| Ruby
| General Ruby questions. NOT Ruby on Rails. Gateway to the ruby-talk
mailing list.
– when the forum is definitely not a gateway to this list anymore.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Eric W. [email protected]
wrote:
Sam’s goal
Note: at some point in the past year or two, ruby-talk switched to
Mailman and it was completely transparent to subscribers. No passwords
to remember, hardly anybody noticed. Heck, the ruby-talk Mailman
instance was even configured to not send annoying monthly reminder
messages) (a huge “Thank you” for that
Indeed, thanks to all for that. There’s nothing I love more than
getting monthly reminders from mailing lists with my password in
cleartext. (I don’t know if Mailman lists ever do that, but I’ve known
others that do.)
–
Eric C.
Wouldn’t it be more useful to find some way to identify recurring
questions, collate good answers, and make those available to the
community? If questions recurringly get asked it is useful to be the
place with the answers.
Leam
Eric C. [email protected] wrote:
Technology-wise, I would agree. But do we have a plan on convincing
people to actually use it? And would this mailing list still exist in
its current form, or would it get completely moved to the Discourse
hybrid forum/list? If this list stays a separate entity, we’ll have
even more fragmentation (although with the list’s activity as low as
it is, maybe it doesn’t matter).
I think Sam’s goal is to import current subscribers + archives into
Discourse so the transition is transparent. At least I hope that’s
Sam’s goal 
Note: at some point in the past year or two, ruby-talk switched to
Mailman and it was completely transparent to subscribers. No passwords
to remember, hardly anybody noticed. Heck, the ruby-talk Mailman
instance was even configured to not send annoying monthly reminder
messages) (a huge “Thank you” for that
Eric C. [email protected] writes:
Oh, I see some problems there. Sorry to go a little bit off the topic,
but does anyone know who to email to get the wording on ruby-lang.org
and ruby-forum.com changed?
For ruby-lang.org, you can file a ticket on the repository or even
submit a pull request:
GitHub - ruby/www.ruby-lang.org: Source of the https://www.ruby-lang.org website.
For ruby-forum.com I don’t know. Maybe post to the site?
Vale,
Quintus
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