Also: Apologies. That came off as rude. No offense intended. But I have to ask, who wrote the ToS? Who is "the company" in its context? Discord? One of the Racket team's universities? A sponsor?
On 11/21/21 11:20 PM, Sage Gerard wrote: > Thanks for letting us know. When should people expect to unsubscribe? > > I read the ToS, privacy policy, and thoughts. Hard pass. > > On 11/21/21 1:09 PM, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote: >> TL;DR: Go to >> >> https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T >> >> and sign up for Racket Discourse (https://racket.discourse.group/) >> >> # Thoughts behind the move: >> >> Over time, it has become steadily more apparent that email-only >> mailing lists are an outdated communication medium for the Racket >> community. More recent arrivals in our community have generally >> chosen other platforms like slack or discord to carry on discussions. >> As a result, the signal-to-noise ratio of the racket users mailing list >> has dropped below the level of viability. >> >> In short, it’s time to give up on the mailing list. >> >> After a good deal of research, it looks like there’s room for a whole >> bunch of discussion platforms for Racket, but it also seems as though >> there should be a “permanent” one; it should be archived, it should be >> searchable in its entirety, and it should not tie us to someone else’s >> plan to monetize user data. >> >> Given these criteria, the winner is Discourse, an open-source >> messaging platform built by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam >> Saffron. It has a reasonable business model (they host projects like >> ours unless they get really big, whereupon you can either host it >> yourself or pay them to do it); it’s widely used by other language >> communities; and it appears to do most of what we want. >> >> # So where can I sign up? >> >> Sign up here: https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T >> >> The discourse platform has been in a “soft opening” phase for about >> two weeks now, since RacketCon, and we have about a hundred users. >> You’re receiving this message because we’d like to have *YOU* there >> as well. >> >> # Can I still receive messages like a mailing list? >> >> Yes, you can. I have it enabled myself! >> To use discord as a mailing-list: >> Sign up, go to Preferences > Email, and tick “Enable mailing list mode'. >> >> Yours, >> >> John Clements & Stephen De Gabrielle >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/9d080367-1b70-4818-8e76-8c6714db404c%40mtasv.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/a07b931b-3a0a-0a29-0582-e899aa335130%40sagegerard.com.
