<div dir="ltr"><div>If any non-email system is adopted, it will exclude me, and probably many other contributors to this list. A mailing list is an appropriate and useful format. "Discussion systems" are not.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 1:36 PM Abe Dillon <<a href="mailto:abedillon@gmail.com">abedillon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've pitched this before but gotten little feedback (especially positive feedback), but I think a Reddit-style forum would be a pretty vast improvement. We could easily start a python_ideas subreddit to try it out.<br><br>I know the google group presents threaded conversations, but I've run into enough bugs trying to use that platform that I now only interact with python-ideas via my gmail account, and threads are flattened here. Also, a Reddit-style forum has voting built in. As a bonus, we can write moderation bots and present useful info in the side-bar.<br><br>If people find Reddit distasteful or otherwise a bad idea, maybe we can find some forum software that replicates the feature set of Reddit and host it ourselves?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 10:41 AM James Lu <<a href="mailto:jamtlu@gmail.com" target="_blank">jamtlu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A lot of the traffic on this email list is people saying “I don’t understand” or “that’s not what I meant” or trying to re-explain. A lot of “-1”s are really “I don’t see the usefulness of this”.<br>
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