Comp.lang.fortran and Fortran-lang relation

[Beliavsky]

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@Harper

Milan Curcic’s statement is good but it omits what I read Fortran-Lang for: discussions on using the Fortran language itself.

I agree, we should highlight the community space in this discourse for discussing all the things around Fortran. I have visited a few other discourses and I’m always positively surprised about the activity in the Fortran-lang one.

@Harper

That is even more vital at a time when few people are contributing to comp.lang.fortran.

I checked now a few times on c.l.f, each time I was overwhelmed by the amount of spam and advertisements on the list, which make it quite hard to pick out discussions I want to look into.

Using the Google Groups interface of c.l.f. just now I only saw 1 spam message (which I flagged) out of the first 10, but the last activity was on Sep 21. Although Fortran Discourse is busier, it would be nice to keep c.l.f. viable, by flagging spam and posting announcements, because some people are opposed in principle to a moderated forum and will not join this group.