# Moving the Redis community on Reddit

DevFeed: [Moving the Redis community on Reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/moving-the-redis-community-on-reddit-20686.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://antirez.com/news/95>)

Published: 2015-10-22T08:14:38Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Antirez](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/antirez.md>)

Topics: [Reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reddit.md>), [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reddit.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>)

## AI overview

The author announces a plan to move the Redis community's main discussions from its 6,700-member mailing list to Reddit. The mailing list will remain for release announcements, critical security information, and occasional links to important Reddit discussions. The change is motivated by repeated questions, discussions being overlooked, and the mailing list not serving as the center of the Redis community.

## Source excerpt

I'm just back from the Redis Dev meeting 2015. We spent two incredible days talking about Redis internals in many different ways. However while I'm waiting to receive private notes from other attenders, in order to summarize in a blog post what happened and what were the most important ideas exposed during the meetings, I'm going to touch a different topic here. I took the non trivial decision to move the Redis mailing list, consisting of 6700 members, to Reddit. This looks like a crazy ideas probably in some way, and "to move" is probably not the right verb, since the ML will still exist. However it will only be used in order to receive announcements of new releases, critical informations like security related ones, and from time to time, links to very important discussions that are happening on Reddit. Why to move? We have a huge mailing list that served us for years at this point, and there is a decent amount of traffic going on. People go there to get some help, to provide new ideas, and so forth. However while we have some traffic the Redis mailing list is IMHO far from the "vital" thing it should be, considering the number of users using Redis currently. For most parts we see the same questions again and again, and is hard to understand if a reply is really worthwhile or not. Moreover an important topic sometimes slides away because new topics arrive, sometimes without getting much attention at all. It's like if the ML is just a far echo of the Redis popularity, not the center of its community. Twitter, while being a tool completely unsuitable for becoming the center of a community that needs to discuss things at length, is completely different, and gives me a feedback about how the Redis ML is in some way broken. It's a lot more vital and it is possible to get quality feedbacks, but everything is limited to 140 characters in flat threads where eventually it is kinda impossible to continue any sane discussion. However Twitter and other signals I get, are the p