Re: [Caml-list] Discourse instance for the OCaml community? (was: how to encourage adoption of OCaml?)

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 06:10:27PM +0200, Glen Mével wrote:
> Andreas Rossberg a écrit (le 10/07/2016 à 09:21) :
> 
> > To paraphrase Dijkstra, IMHO email and mailing lists are an
> > improvement over more “modern” forums in almost every way, once you
> > get past the “flashiness” thing:
> >
> > - participation without having to constantly log into yet another
> >   account (with potential tracking),
> > - all communication through the same tool/UI (that actually works),
> >   easy cross-communication and cross-quoting, archiving in one place,
> >   etc
> > - offline reading & writing,
> > - proper threading (Discourse sees its lack as a “feature"),
> > - no annoying gamification,
> > - open, standardised and guaranteed to still be around in 5 or 10
> >   years from now.
> 
> i fully agree with all this. however, there is one single feature that i
> miss with email and newsgroup: the ability to edit a message after it
> was sent. sadly, by the nature of those protocols this can’t be fixed,
> and to me this is the single stuff that makes the web‐2.0‐based
> solutions (forums and the like) unavoidable. [ other missing features,
> available in more recent technologies, are either superfluous
> (avatars?), or tied to contents (redaction in a Markdown‐like format,
> syntax highlighting…), thus can be circumvented. ]

THis in one thing that google plus allows.  However, I find searching 
for anything on google plus is an exercise in futility.

-- hendrik