From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: “guix --help” should point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 01:01:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lflqjhdz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv0hkxcr.fsf@GlaDOS.home> (Diego Nicola Barbato's message of "Fri, 15 May 2020 17:54:12 +0200")
Hi Diego,
Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de> skribis:
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Ricardo,
>>
>> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:20, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>>
>>> annoyed by the fact that people turn to Reddit for help with Guix — a
>>> venue only very few of us frequent — I wondered if our help channels are
>>> visible enough.
>>
>> Maybe it is "cultural" or/and "generational" thing and we cannot do
>> really better. Maybe some people prefer channels as Reddit because
>> they are a bit "afraid" by email and/or IRC, especially maybe on
>> official channels. Maybe because when someone has a problem, the
>> first thing they does is a query to popular search engines and then
>> browse some Reddit-kind of channels, so maybe they feels like it is a
>> good entry point. Maybe some people appreciate the voting system
>> (upvote, Discourse, etc.) to be "rewarded". Etc..
>>
>> Well, I am not convinced it is an issue about visibility. :-(
>
> If the main issue is people turning to the subreddit for help, we could
> also kindly ask the moderators to advertise the official help channels
> in a sticky post.
That’d be nice. Do you know how to contact them?
> After all some people might turn to Reddit before even thinking of
> running `guix --help'.
Uh, I’m an old fart.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-17 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 10:18 “guix --help” should point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/ Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-15 11:00 ` zimoun
2020-05-15 15:54 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2020-05-17 23:01 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-05-18 9:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-15 20:22 ` Bengt Richter
2020-05-17 23:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-20 15:36 ` zimoun
2020-05-24 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-25 6:40 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-05-25 9:17 ` zimoun
2020-05-25 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
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