Hi Emily,

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM 'Emily Shaffer' via git-mentoring
[off-list ref] wrote:

Because it's not possible for us to push back on these takedowns, I
think it's time for us to seek an alternative and shut down the Google
Groups list.

Dscho proposed shutting down the Google Groups and having people ask
in the Discord chat instead. I think it's reasonable; we've had a few
newbies asking for contribution advice there and they get answers just
as quickly, and we get a bit more moderation control. Discord is still
not scrapable by web crawlers (which is one thing that was appealing
to us about a closed Google Group). It does require account creation
to post, but of course we still have git@vger, which does not; this
mentoring-specific channel/list is supposed to just be an alternative
for the especially shy.

Thoughts? Alternate suggestions? I'd also be happy to host a list with
some other service, but I don't have any personal experience on which
services are good to use or not.

I agree with shutting down the Google Groups and suggesting people ask
on either Discord chat or the #git-devel IRC Channel or the Git
mailing list.

Thanks.