is there less available support for beginners these days?

I'm a Haskell hobbyist enthusiast -- first learned it in 2008, struggling having come from an imperative language background, and I only get to use it in hobby projects, but I love it more each year. I still consider myself a beginner in many areas. Unfortunately it used to be much easier to get responses on the beginner's list or the #haskell channel. I've now had several posts go completely unanswered on the beginner's list, and can't get help from #haskell most of the time (by "help" I mean someone who takes just a few minutes with me). I've tried posting on Haskell cafe in the hopes I would get more responses and I'm not sure if that's going to work (or is appropriate). D

Have you tried the Haskell StackOverflow board
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell? It could just be that
people have moved away from mailing lists and IRC. After all, almost a
decade has passed!
- ocharles
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:32 AM Dennis Raddle
I'm a Haskell hobbyist enthusiast -- first learned it in 2008, struggling having come from an imperative language background, and I only get to use it in hobby projects, but I love it more each year. I still consider myself a beginner in many areas.
Unfortunately it used to be much easier to get responses on the beginner's list or the #haskell channel. I've now had several posts go completely unanswered on the beginner's list, and can't get help from #haskell most of the time (by "help" I mean someone who takes just a few minutes with me). I've tried posting on Haskell cafe in the hopes I would get more responses and I'm not sure if that's going to work (or is appropriate).
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I find #haskell-beginners is pretty active
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, 11:23 Oliver Charles,
Have you tried the Haskell StackOverflow board https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell? It could just be that people have moved away from mailing lists and IRC. After all, almost a decade has passed!
- ocharles
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:32 AM Dennis Raddle
wrote: I'm a Haskell hobbyist enthusiast -- first learned it in 2008, struggling having come from an imperative language background, and I only get to use it in hobby projects, but I love it more each year. I still consider myself a beginner in many areas.
Unfortunately it used to be much easier to get responses on the beginner's list or the #haskell channel. I've now had several posts go completely unanswered on the beginner's list, and can't get help from #haskell most of the time (by "help" I mean someone who takes just a few minutes with me). I've tried posting on Haskell cafe in the hopes I would get more responses and I'm not sure if that's going to work (or is appropriate).
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I would say from looking at your last few emails, that you are asking
questions, mostly about tooling, that no one really knows the answer
to, so they don't answer. Congratulations you are not a newbie
anymore.
Stackoverflow is better for questions that might not have an answer
because people will see unanswered questions for weeks or months
whereas on the lists, if someone doesn't have an immediate answer they
will forget about it.
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Dennis Raddle
I'm a Haskell hobbyist enthusiast -- first learned it in 2008, struggling having come from an imperative language background, and I only get to use it in hobby projects, but I love it more each year. I still consider myself a beginner in many areas.
Unfortunately it used to be much easier to get responses on the beginner's list or the #haskell channel. I've now had several posts go completely unanswered on the beginner's list, and can't get help from #haskell most of the time (by "help" I mean someone who takes just a few minutes with me). I've tried posting on Haskell cafe in the hopes I would get more responses and I'm not sure if that's going to work (or is appropriate).
D
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 01:29:40AM -0800, Dennis Raddle wrote:
Unfortunately it used to be much easier to get responses on the beginner's list or the #haskell channel. I've now had several posts go completely unanswered on the beginner's list, and can't get help from #haskell most of the time (by "help" I mean someone who takes just a few minutes with me). I've tried posting on Haskell cafe in the hopes I would get more responses and I'm not sure if that's going to work (or is appropriate).
Your last post on beginners (segfault with Hint (InterpreterT)) doesn't provide code.
My program segfaults the second time it run runInterpreterT. Just wondering if that's not supposed to be allowed. I'm actually not sure what triggers the segfault -- it's also doing some MIDI I/O.
D
Few persons will even bother to try without a minimal example which they can replicate on their machine, here or on SO or anywhere else.

Yes, good points. Most of my questions are not as difficult as a segfault,
and it definitely was easier to get newbie help some number of years ago.
For my Hint segfault, I definitely need to construct a minimal example and
will do that shortly.
d
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Francesco Ariis
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 01:29:40AM -0800, Dennis Raddle wrote:
Unfortunately it used to be much easier to get responses on the beginner's list or the #haskell channel. I've now had several posts go completely unanswered on the beginner's list, and can't get help from #haskell most of the time (by "help" I mean someone who takes just a few minutes with me). I've tried posting on Haskell cafe in the hopes I would get more responses and I'm not sure if that's going to work (or is appropriate).
Your last post on beginners (segfault with Hint (InterpreterT)) doesn't provide code.
My program segfaults the second time it run runInterpreterT. Just wondering if that's not supposed to be allowed. I'm actually not sure what triggers the segfault -- it's also doing some MIDI I/O.
D
Few persons will even bother to try without a minimal example which they can replicate on their machine, here or on SO or anywhere else. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.
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Arian van Putten
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David McBride
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Dennis Raddle
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