> In particular I think open source communities should have 1) threaded discussions that are 2) searchable results on google. (for hopefully self evident reason

> In particular I think open source communities should have 1) threaded discussions that are 2) searchable results on google. (for hopefully self evident reasons) Open source communities that communicate via mailing lists do have threaded discussions that can be found via a Google search. Though the websites they link to have a rather limited interface for viewing the discussion. NNTP gateways like gmane make it much easier to read through the threads (though it would be better if the web pages presented a more HN or reddit type view of the discussions).