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Lainchan is nice for Lisp, but I probably use here for Lisp more, by now; I can only discuss Lisp for so many years. Anyway, it's a bad idea. Why would I make an account with this, when I could write on my website instead? At best, I'd discuss my work there and still link to my website, but I can do that here.
Is it a side effect of the language or is it a side effect of the people drawn to the language?
It's the latter. People who get serious about programming see the defects in Lisp as well, and may seek out better.
Discourse has many pavlovian incentive features that encourage people to post
What would these be?
And categories that welcome different type of posts.
Sure, but this would primarily be for Lisp anyway.
And links more of a constant identity compared to anonymous forums.
Again, I can do that better with my website.
There is no way I would ever collaborate with anyone from the forums I mentioned in the OP.
It just doesn't happen. It won't happen. I don't see why it'd happen. There's no basis for it to happen.
There's no real common culture.
There's nothing other than the language with a whimsical name and strange people that pass through it, through the revolving doors of its existence
I completely agree.
I just want Lisp to being the morning star that Lucifer was.
The age of Lisp has come to an end. Lisp can serve as the implementation language for this Lucifer, but he will have little resemblance to Lisp at that point.
And, in an ironic fashion, I find a lot of open source to be a sort of psychosis.
This sentence reminds me of this: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=4012
Perhaps deep down I just want to see how and what smart Lispers are up to.
Smart programmers are up to. If I were more determined I'd scour the blogs, and maybe I will.
Someone will complain if I link to my website, but I may have revealed enough to make it obvious, anyway.