Create a mailing list

[mgaitan]

Moviepy is wonderful project, turning very popular (almost 1200 stars!). We need a mailing list to

• send Important announces (new releases, big api changes, etc.)
• discuss raw ideas (don't replace github issues)
• share examples and success stories :)
• get community support

http://librelist.com/ is a good option.

[Zulko]

There is one :) just send a mail to moviepy@librelist.com to register, we will be three ;). For some reasons people prefer to ask questions on Reddit or github.

[mgaitan]

Oh! So, you should highlight it in the README and in the doc. I've been following the project (from the shadows) and I didn't notice it. May be there are more people in my condition.

I guess that stackoverflow/ and github issues are replacing the old primary goal of a user mailing list (get support) in a good way, but a list still have sense for many other reasons: if I did a new fx that I'm proud of I wouldn't open an issue, nor a PR (may be a post in blog). But probably I'd say in a list: hey see what i did and it worked 👯

So, we need to spread the list and convert "many users" in "a community". Also, an IRC channel in freenode would help.

PS: btw, is a mistery for me why people use reddit. It's ugly and unconfortable to ask and search.

[Zulko]

I agree with all you said (I'll update the readme and main page).

For Reddit, it is clearly not the right place to discuss about a library, but I mostly advertized MoviePy on r/python and r/programming, so I guess some MoviePy users already know/have an account on Reddit, it makes it simpler for them.

[Zulko]

Hey Martin ! I added the mailing list to the readme and I'll update the docs when I have time. I don't know anything about freenode, but if you open something there, I'll join :)