Mailing list page confusion

['Reuben Thomas' via dev-redirect]

I just went to

https://lists.racket-lang.org/

and found some broken image links (the gmane links under the section for each of the three lists), and some confusion: the second section is headed "Subscription: enter your email here to subscribe to a mailing list", but when I entered my email in the box, I found I was subscribed to announce. Not what I wanted. I guess that there used to be three boxes in this section, and now there are two links and one box? (BTW, it's not obvious how to subscribe to users@ or dev@ as a mailing list, rather than via the Google Groups interface.)

Now to get on with trying to use the list…

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['John Clements' via dev-redirect]

Your confusion is pretty reasonable. Users@ and Dev@ used to be mailing lists administered using mailman; they’re now just Google Groups, which reduces the effort required to manage them. The `announce` list is still a mailman list.

I’ve just made a pull request for the subscriptions page that might address some of your concerns; specifically, the text

“Subscription: enter your email here to subscribe to a mailing list”

Now could simply say

“Subscribe to a mailing list”,

and the links to the google groups have text that indicates that this is how you join the corresponding group.

And yes… the gmane graph is broken, you’re right.

John