Re: A Forum for Guix Users

[Attila Lendvai]

> Regarding the forum I dont think any forum would have much traction.
> I agree that either matrix or xmpp could be considered instead for that
> purpose.
> As a more approachable chat mechanism compared to IRC.


it's an essential role of a forum that latecomers find the earlier 
questions/discussions, typically through a websearch. a forum's primary 
user-story is very much not that of a chat, i.e. a real-time, ephemeral, linear 
flow of text, sometimes with multiple overlapping discussions, and as such not 
very well processed by the search engine crawlers...

i think it all boils down to this:

mailing list archives (and IRC logs) are stuck in time. their underlying data 
model is inadequate for efficient indexing/searching, and often lack structure 
even to conveniently present the archive to the user.

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