Erlang forums (was Re: PING TEST)

[Tristan Sloughter]

Just wanted to say I'm glad the mailing list will be discontinued so that there is not a split in where new information can be found or where questions should be asked -- which is my issue with not merging ElixirForum into a BEAM Forum :). 

For those who are so unsatisfied with the mailing list feature of discourse or discourse itself they don't want to participate they can create and moderate a mailing list themselves. I'd hate if it created a split like the one between the Erlang and Elixir forum, but I'm not too worried.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021, at 16:01, Sam Overdorf wrote:
> I vote to keep the E-mail functional.
> I like it.
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 9:12 AM Schneider <fchschneider@REDACTED> wrote:
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>> +111111
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>> \Frans
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>> > Op 17 dec. 2021 om 18:02 heeft Igor Clark <igor.clark@REDACTED> het volgende geschreven:
>> >
>> > I agree wholeheartedly. Thank you for putting it so carefully and insightfully, Yao.
>> >
>> > It would be a great shame to kill the mailing list. It’s different from a forum, and something valuable would be lost.
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Igor
>> >
>> >> On 17 Dec 2021, at 15:10, Yao Bao <free7by@REDACTED> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> Erlang bring us together as a community, we don't share data
>> >> between processes, but we do share love from Erlang.
>> >>
>> >> It is not common for programmers say "love" to a programming
>> >> language. Erlang programmers might not use Erlang in daily job,
>> >> but we are willing to put some of our life and energy into this.
>> >> Personally, mainly because of the uncommon beauty of it.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, we are still marginal. And this might be the root cause of
>> >> this movement. I can understand it, but why can't we have both?
>> >>
>> >> Yes, resources are always limited, and we can't split energy into
>> >> two things equally, this is understandable. But having both, or,
>> >> in a foreseeable future, we might discover some better methods
>> >> to organize our community, then we can say this is the true "rich"
>> >> community. New generations are good and unavoidable, but I
>> >> hope we can keep the old generations as much as we can.
>> >>
>> >> Every once in a while, some shiny things appears, and we are
>> >> not against shiny things, they are good, if it is good enough to
>> >> replace the old one entirely, nobody will miss it. We just need
>> >> sometime to prove it.
>> >>
>> >> We can deprecate language features, but I hope we do not
>> >> deprecate people. Shiny tools can attract young generations,
>> >> I don't know the story or history about Elixir forums, but I would
>> >> say the biggest difference would be the origin of these two
>> >> languages. Of course it is good to have a try, after receiving the
>> >> new Erlang forums announcement, I give it a try almost
>> >> immediately, and personally prefer this mailing list for now.
>> >>
>> >> Although as we see, this mailing list is not very "active", but we
>> >> really care about it. And this might be why some "sad" emotion
>> >> comes along. If we don't care about it, we would not say any word
>> >> about it.
>> >>
>> >> I really hope this mailing list is still alive. Maybe one reason would
>> >> be good enough to keep it: old generations are still alive.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Yao
>> >>