Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

Daniel Fischer writes:

On Saturday 30 October 2010 03:42:27, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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On 30 October 2010 12:22, Lauri Alanko wrote:

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:55:12PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:

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The number of subscribers to the Haskell Reddit, for example, is [...] In short, the old technologies of mail and news are technically vastly superior [..] +1; that's pretty much my opinion/arguments as well. +1; same here.

I agree too, but not without pointing out that on SO, you'd just be clicking to vote up, rather than quoting the entire mail and adding one line. So there are some advantages. Ivan L. M. wrote:

So you'd prefer to have the discussion about a blog post be made distinct from the blog post itself?

The problem with blog comments and other "web forums" is, in addition to the hopeless interfaces they invariably are equipped with, that they are scattered. I very rarely check back to follow up on comments (except on my own site :-), and I rarely bother to register to add my voice. So, yes, I would like discussion to take place with some central coordinaton. Stack Overflow and Reddit are at least improvements over the traditional web forums, starting to acquire some of the features Usenet had twenty years ago. Much like Planet-style meta-blogs and RSS syndication makes it liveable to follow blogs. The important thing is making all the resources visible, and bringing stuff together. HWN is great, I don't follow Reddit, but I do click on the links that look interesting. Is there something going in the other direction, pointing SO users to mailing list threads, for instance? Most web-based email archives seem to suck - where can we point to a nice URL to get an overview of a -cafe thread? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants