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Lua programming language needs a web hosting

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No panic, it sounds like they found one which will be announced soon.

> A new host for lua.org will be announced soon.

They migrated the mailing list to Google Groups, but many people without Gmail are complaining, besides that, there's uncertainty about Google maintaining the service.

I have nothing to do with Lua, but google groups is not a very good service, and uncertainty about its future makes sense since it hasn’t had any features added in the last decade.

I don’t use mailing lists. Could touch tell me what is advantage of mailing list vs something modern like Zulip chat… in which you can turn off notifications and just use as a website… they even have web public streams viewing if which doesn’t require any auth

Mailing lists only require an email to participate with, there is no requirement to make an account.

They are very archivable, accessible and search engine friendly. The volume of availability and visibility is greater in audience than when compared to instant messaging.

Nothing fancy required, you can access all issues and previous responses with ease from your own email inbox.

Everyone can be on the same page rapidly. And the lookup of pervious correspondence is easier than with IM.

You don't get interruptions like memes. Your responsible for what you post promoting maturity and professionalism.

It provides easier development workflows. If a developer posts a patch, your able with ease in applying it to your terminal.

As much confusion I have with the UI of web mailing lists it is one of the few tools that I think that outranks all other communication methods for development.

Why not just a forum? Discourse, etc.?

They're tedious and those platforms are too rich when it comes down to serious developmental discussion.

When your writing code raw, you need a service that supports raw discussion.

What do you mean? The ability to easily format code and inline snippets, screenshots, lists, etc has been super helpful to me relative to email (doing tech support that involves a lot of back and forth coding discussion).

For tech support they're perfect. Such platforms are perfect for discussions about the patch or how to apply the patch.

But if your trying to debug a kernel because sound is chopping or you've introduced a critical bug in your code; mail-lists allow you get straight to the point.

Development machines may not have access to a web browser.

Your still required to register an account and have the resources available to browse the site.

If for whatever reason that discourse instance disappears you then loose everything. How would I obtain all the data?

Email only requires an small amount of data, so you can craft replies where-ever and it keeps a hard copy. Regardless if you have internet or not, no email server you can still access previous threads.

Hmm, I see. Thank you for the explanation! Sounds like a very different world than I've ever worked in :)

Works fine for serious discussions away from memes in likely the most meme-y community, see https://ethresear.ch

The first thing I get on that page is a banner of

"Unfortunately, your browser is unsupported. Please switch to a supported browser to view rich content, log in and reply."

So if I had to rush a patch to discussion I'd be an issue.

Just out of curiosity, what browser do you (either as an individual, or as a class of kernel devs) actually use? Discourse is so old, and so common... what doesn't support it? Lynx? A webkit derivative?

Is this kind of like how Google apps keep getting killed?

Anyone know what kind of traffic a 6 dollar a month digital ocean droplet can handle?

You can run an unmodded Minecraft server for 2-3 people on it.

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