One of Clojure’s many strengths is backwards compatibility. Famously a library that was last touched six years ago might still work fine. A discussion about that library last touched six months ago at this excellent forum would be locked.
Hi, I’m a part-time developer returning to Clojure. I was using Elixir for quite a while and loved it too though never as much as Clojure, which has always had my heart. Now, Elixirforum doesn’t lock conversations and I came to appreciate that. I understand wanting to avoid necro postings but Clojurereverse members and the Clojure community in general seem respectful and well behaved.
Meanwhile if I just look in a single search, say for atoms used as state, I get this promising thread from years ago:
and it looks like it’s just getting going when I run into that all-too-familiar lock icon…
My personal suggestion would be to just not lock conversations ever. Of course there might be good reasons, I know little about running a forum, and most of all I hope my comment isn’t annoying!
I’m so grateful for Clojurereverse and Clojure itself.
Necroposting and spammers are the two main reasons threads get locked after six months.
Most threads exhaust reasonable discussion after a few days, some last a few weeks. Rather than resurrecting an old thread that hasn’t had any activity in six months – and pinging everyone who was involved in the discussion back then – we have encouraged members to start a new thread (and link/quote the old thread if needed – as you did here).
While Clojure itself value backward-compatibility and changes only slowly, our industry moves at a faster pace, best practices change, the “popular” choices of libraries also change over time.