[Biopython] How many of you are on Slack?

[João Rodrigues]

My "issue" with having announcements in a blog or twitter or so (only) is
that you have to make an active effort to read them as a user. I see your
point with feeds (Feedly user here too) but it's an extra layer (in my
opinion), and the more layers, the less involvement.

An email is "passive": you subscribe and that's it, gets delivered to your
inbox. It's also the lowest common denominator in terms of tech in the
sense that everyone has/uses email.

Migrating to a Google group should be simple too, you can (could at least)
subscribe automatically all the members of the current list so that there's
no action necessary on their end.


A segunda, 28/06/2021, 10:38, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
escreveu:

> My goal is both reduce OBF maintenance, and better connect with the
> Biopython community - it seems this mailing list is  sub-optimal on
> both front.
>
> As to consolidation/relocation, I was thinking blog (read only
> announcements),  free-tier Slack (real-time interactions including
> user support), and Github (dev support and discussions). But maybe
> with the slow decline in news reader popularity (I personally have
> used Feedly ever since Google Reader was dropped), you're right and
> there is still a role for some kind of email based announcements list?
>
> (Note that some of the smaller non-public OBF mailing lists have for
> some time forwarded to private Google Groups; your suggestion would
> not be such a big upheaval)
>
> Peter
>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 3:27 PM João Rodrigues
> <j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I understand your points.
> >
> > If the purpose is to reduce the load on OBF to maintain and host all
> these things, what about creating a single mailing list on google groups
> (free, archived, easy to use) and use that for announcements and an initial
> point of contact? You could then combine google group (announcements),
> free-tier Slack (real-time user support), and Github (dev support) and
> cover pretty much all corners with remote hosted tools that archive the
> most important conversations.
> >
> > Never used Gitter or other chat platforms.
>
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