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Wow. I am speechless. The reddit until very recently had no involvement from the Go team whatsoever. It was founded by uriel, which then added as mods some Go

by 4ad 10y ago

Wow. I am speechless. The reddit until very recently had no involvement from the Go team whatsoever. It was founded by uriel, which then added as mods some Go developers which then never posted there. The community was thriving without any involvment from the Go team at all. More recently they decreed they owned the place. Nobody was asked. It just happened. They took over and proclaimed authority over it. They still were not involved much, so it was just a change in name. But now they want to delete it??! A place they had nothing to do with whatsoever. Wow. What arrogance.

Sphax 10y ago
Exactly. I'm pissed of that they treat us Reddit users that way. If they don't want to use Reddit they can just fuck off somewhere else and let us be. We don't need them to "moderate" us. I have a lot of respect for the Go team but they sure are bad at managing communities.
- 4ad 10y ago
  Oh yeah, they totally blew it with the Plan 9 community too. I had hoped they learned their lesson, but no.
thewhitetulip 10y ago
As I have stated elsewhere, the Go community is split into two factions, elites (Googlers) and others. Reddit is the only place where others and elites are treated the same, post for feedback on the google group, which has sucky UI and is terrible to use, and you get small comments because they are busy and the feedback isn't at all helpful. Contrast that with Reddit, as someone had pointed to me on HN, I posted a question about AJAX and Go, I got two answers, one in vanilla JS and one in JQuery. Had I asked that in the google groups, I'd likely have not been able to post because it would have been "too simple" or I'd have been shooed away to some obscure stack overflow link. The community wants the subreddit, you can leave if you want. Just because one person screwed up doesn't mean that someone who rarely uses reddit wants to delete the subreddit WITHOUT asking the community. This is against the point of open source. Isn't Go open source?
bradfitz 10y ago
It was never "they", it was me. As I replied to you Reddit, the subreddit's early history (that I just learned about) is why I no longer propose deleting it. I think we should just disassociate from it and make it unofficial again.

by 4ad 10y ago

Sphax 10y ago

Exactly. I'm pissed of that they treat us Reddit users that way. If they don't want to use Reddit they can just fuck off somewhere else and let us be. We don't need them to "moderate" us. I have a lot of respect for the Go team but they sure are bad at managing communities.

4ad 10y ago
Oh yeah, they totally blew it with the Plan 9 community too. I had hoped they learned their lesson, but no.

thewhitetulip 10y ago

As I have stated elsewhere, the Go community is split into two factions, elites (Googlers) and others. Reddit is the only place where others and elites are treated the same, post for feedback on the google group, which has sucky UI and is terrible to use, and you get small comments because they are busy and the feedback isn't at all helpful. Contrast that with Reddit, as someone had pointed to me on HN, I posted a question about AJAX and Go, I got two answers, one in vanilla JS and one in JQuery. Had I asked that in the google groups, I'd likely have not been able to post because it would have been "too simple" or I'd have been shooed away to some obscure stack overflow link. The community wants the subreddit, you can leave if you want. Just because one person screwed up doesn't mean that someone who rarely uses reddit wants to delete the subreddit WITHOUT asking the community. This is against the point of open source. Isn't Go open source?

bradfitz 10y ago

It was never "they", it was me. As I replied to you Reddit, the subreddit's early history (that I just learned about) is why I no longer propose deleting it. I think we should just disassociate from it and make it unofficial again.