On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
So you'd prefer to have the discussion about a blog post be made distinct from the blog post itself? Why not keep them together, also so that people finding the blog post from someplace other than reddit (e.g. planet.haskell.org) can find them?
Well, I'd most prefer that absolutely everything I'm interested in be conveniently kept together in one place, of course, but that's not really practical. Failing that, yes, I think reddit (or something like it) makes a better medium for discussion of broad topics than does the comment system on most blogs. Given a shared subject matter, e.g. Haskell, having one place with discussions about relevant posts from multiple blogs provides a richer overall context than does any one individual post. Anyway, lots of blogs these days have little "submit/discuss this post on four-hundred-and-thirteen different web 2.0 social news sites!!" buttons after every post, so it's not exactly hard to find them...
Neither the Haskell reddit nor Stack Overflow are linked to from haskell.org and there is nothing to indicate that they are "official".
I skimmed the last couple months of archives for beginners@haskell.org, found some straightforward questions, and for each one put a few keywords into a google search. About half the time there was a relevant question on Stack Overflow in the first page of results, at least once actually showing up ahead of the mail message I was searching based off of. The idea of "community" is a rather fluid and consensus-based sort of thing. At some point, visibility is the same thing as being "official". (And yes, they are actually linked from haskell.org, but I'm not sure how much that's really worth.)
Also, wasn't it Don that started (and is mainly responsible) for linking to Haskell articles on reddit?
Maybe. Is there anything related to publicising Haskell that Don *hasn't* done? :) And I think he's only "mainly responsible" insofar as he tends to find and submit the good links first. - C.