Re: Some thoughts about this mailing list

The mail list could be kept as is. There's no reason a forum couldn't co-exist with the list.

There are many "Lua communities"! There's...

- the irc channel

- the subtreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/lua/

- the #LuaLang hashtag on twitter

- Lua questions on quora and stackoverflow

- the blog http://lua.space (come help, make a PR with a post!)
- few different facegroup groups and pages

- forums of different game engines

etc.

And none of them imply that the mail list is outdated or is ineffective. People communicate

different things with different purposes in each of those channels of communication. It just

means that Lua is being used by more people.

I would gladly use a forum sort of hackernews like, and I'd still use the mail list.

(PS: +1 to the auto-post idea)

2016-11-13 2:04 GMT+01:00 oliver <oliver.schoenborn@gmail.com>:

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016, 19:35 Forrest Christian (List Account) <lists@packetflux.com> wrote:
The key difference between a list and a bulletin board is push vs pull.

This might have been true 20 years ago, but modern ones give you the option of getting email for each post (push), a digest once day or week or month, or nothing (pull). So far it appears that most reservations rely on the fallacy of push vs pull. Even a bb like SO has a form of push via tag subscriptions.

On Nov 8, 2016 2:20 PM, "Geoff Smith" <spammealot1@live.co.uk> wrote:

Hi

Sorry to complain folks, but one of the things I dislike about the Lua community is the reliance on this out dated mailing list format for discussing Lua.

I was reminded about it again today with 2 msgs I received, one was discussing how Yahoo users are now getting flagged as spam, and also a weird msg I got from

lua-l-bounces+670184d2a3b7b4bda5cd0ccbf10e30a75d072006@lists.lua.org , telling me I had lost messages due to several mail bounces (I am not a Yahoo user).

Why I am losing messages I have no idea.

In my opinion it would be so much better to move to a message board format. Here are a couple of Python examples

http://www.python-forum.org/, http://python-forum.io/.

I would cite the following arguments for it.

1) I dont want to have to filter out Lua messages from my personal Emails, so I had to create a new mail account solely for this Lua List. Why should I need to do this ?
2) The message board format, is more aesthetic and pleasing on the eye to browse through.
3) Searching old messages is easier with a proper message board
4) Reading code snippets in this mailing list is hard due to the screwed up html formatting. Custom code paste options in message boards solve this problem and make reading code so much better.
5) A minor point granted, but I would much prefer instantly clicking on a html link to read messages than the current irritation of having to log out of my personal email account and log in to my Lua mail account.

I cant think of any arguments against a message board format, apart from it would take some time and effort to set this up. I would be interested to hear other peoples opinions about this and why it hasnt already happened ? Am I in the minority with this point of view ?

Regards Geoff

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