Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

stephen.tetley:

On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart wrote:

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"Status of Infrastructure" questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit.

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P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted there now, away from -cafe@

Err, Why?

The online services provide searchable content, tagging, and the ability to rate, edit and refer to previous content. E.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell?sort=hot&pagesize=15

Having to track three places for information rather than one doesn't seem like a good swap to me...

It's too late. The number of subscribers to the Haskell Reddit, for example, is double the -cafe@, and there are comparable numbers of questions being asked on the Stack Overflow [haskell] tag, as here -- so anyone who only reads -cafe@ is already missing a lot of stuff. A lot of the community has already voted on the efficacy of mailing lists for large communities, by moving their discussion elsewhere. -- Don