Shut down the site?

[snoyberg]

Blog post with the proposal: https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2021/03/shutting-down-haskellers/. Please add comments, and/or use the voting emojis on this description to express your position.

[blackheaven]

I can understand the drawbacks of maintaining it, but, while the Discourse would be great for discussions, it will lack the "geolocalisation" part.

That is how I discovered, few months ago, that there were a company doing Haskell in my area, and we planned to setup a meetup group.

Anyway, thank you for allowing us to connect.

[juhp]

What about https://packdeps.haskellers.com ?

[snoyberg]

What about https://packdeps.haskellers.com ?

No intention on my part to change it at all.

[isovector]

I use Haskellers all the time when traveling; it's a cool way to meet up with interesting people no matter where I am. I for one would be sad to see it go.

[tfausak]

👍🏻 from me. I signed up back in the day but I don't think I've ever actually used the site.

[sajith]

Haskellers.com is not super critical (to me anyway), but it is fun and pretty unique. It is not as formal as the other venues. I learned a bunch of things about Yesod from reading its sources. It would be nice if someone else could maintain it (and improve it their way!), if Michael doesn't want to do that anymore.

What if Haskellers.com could become something like advogato, but for Haskellers? It could be a fun little community project. I'd imagine that aspiring Haskellers can learn a lot from hacking on something like it.

[snoyberg]

I really hadn't considered the geolocation aspect of Haskellers being so valuable to people. That really changes my calculation here a lot. If people are using it, I'm in no rush to take down the site. But perhaps slimming down the feature set a bit and including more community resources would be a Good Thing.

It would be nice if someone else could maintain it

In this case, if people have thoughts on improvements, I'm definitely open to them. Besides some user assistance from time to time, I don't have much in the way of a maintenance burden from the site.

[snoyberg]

Given that there seem to be enough people interested in the geolocation features, I'm going to leave Haskellers unchanged for now. Thanks to everyone for their input. If anyone is interested in taking a stab at some changes to Haskellers, such as providing some community resources in addition to the geolocation feature, let me know (ideally in a new issue proposing the change). As usual, PRs welcome!