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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

As discussed on IRC, I'm not really in favor of switching to a forum. It seems like a lot of hassle and it's fixing something that isn't broken. To look back on mailing lists we have an archive. And the emails from the list can be organized via thread depending on your mail client, so it isn't difficult to keep track of proposals at all in my opinion.

I will use and I'd even moderate/admin an OpenNIC forum if everyone else wants to switch, but I don't agree with the idea and I'd vote no if this was taken to a vote. The mailing list functions perfectly for our needs. (And as a bonus, the ML is decentralized in the sense that emails are sent and stored on all clients, so everything still exists on everyone's email servers even if the Sympa server goes down, unlike a forum, which would be lost if the host went down).

Jonah

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 11:24 PM Theo Bleier <me AT theos.space> wrote:

A few other people and I were talking about possibly starting an OpenNIC forum instead of using the mail list.

Some possible benefits:

- Being able to look back on conversations easily

- Being able to organize all domain proposals in an easy to browse way

- Much easier for people who are new to OpenNIC to look through 

Some possible caveats:

- We'll need active moderators to manage the forum

- Spam could be more of an issue

- We don't know how many people will switch over from the mailing list to use the forum instead.

What we think about this? Do most people want a forum, or are we just going to stay with the mailing list?

-Theo

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