> It's a mailing list..

Except absolutely awful, it's worse than the standard mailman ML and that's saying something.

> you want it to be a forum, but that's not the point or what it is meant to be.

One of the issues being google groups looks a lot like a forum (dedicated web UI, starring, replies to threads, etc…) without any of the good points of a forum.

Basically, for most people google groups is the lowest common denominator of a forum and a mailing list, making it unmitigated garbage.

D has a forum that is also a mailing list and it is far superior to Google Groups. It's also probably the fastest site on the web I've ever seen.

https://forum.dlang.org/

You can still access the posts through NNTP, as well! The DFeed software is an impressive piece of work.

And for people who don't like mailing lists, /r/golang exists. Not sure why we can't have both.

Isn't the point of the thread that a subset of the (google groups-bound) golang community wants the subreddit removed?