Re: A place to discuss Perl language design questions

* Marc Chantreux <[email protected]> [2026-03-20 14:50]:
> What about our hability to keep record of everything whatever github
> becomes in the future? (same for reddit)

Currently they’re about even, and OKish for both, though I think it
would be messier for Reddit. But future outlook is much more uncertain
for Reddit (which has incentives to make access to data more difficult)
then for GitHub (which sort of has to offer some degree of open access
(for things like integrations) in order to remain attractive to both
non-paying users and paying customers). A further factor is that both
accounts and subs on Reddit get suspended or terminated for sometimes
unfathomable reasons, which is not particularly an issue with GitHub.
(Basically: I don’t expect anything to happen to r/perl, but if anything
ever did, I wouldn’t be surprised. With the GitHub Perl org, I would be
*very* surprised.)

Either way though, in terms of archival accessibility, even at their
current reasonably comparable level, both Reddit and GitHub are a far
cry from email mailing lists. Someone would have to write the code to
make these archives and then continuously run it, and it’s not obvious
what format the archives should be in in order to be readily digestible,
whereas for email, there are multiple possible obvious answers to all
such questions.

Sadly the audience has shifted away from email to an unfortunate extent.