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[Philipp Schafft <lion AT lion.leolix.org>]

Good evening,


On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 17:49 +0000, Jonah Aragon wrote:
> Maybe that's indication it needs to be replaced.

Or it's an indication that it is what people prefer. Because it has seen
so many replacement requests but still stands against them. ;)

With best regards,

> 
> Jonah
> 
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:48 PM Maiyannah Bishop
> <maiyannah.bishop AT postactiv.com> wrote:
> 
>         One of these days I'll get an email from this list that isn't
>         someone pitching an alternative to the mailing list.
>         -mb
>         
>         
>         On 2017-04-19 13:45, Jonah Aragon wrote:
>         
>         > I'd like to propose moving our Mailing List and long form
>         > discussion to a new platform, Discourse
>         > (http://www.discourse.org/). Most of this post will probably
>         > sound like a Discourse ad (sorry), but I want to make sure
>         > everyone understands why we should switch. 
>         > 
>         > 
>         > Discourse is a discussion platform that doubles as both a
>         > web based internet forum and mailing list management
>         > software. I think we should switch primarily because of the
>         > forum's benefits to our community: having an easily
>         > accessible discussion platform for planning and proposing
>         > topics is an issue for us at the moment, in my opinion. The
>         > mailing list can be difficult to understand for newcomers,
>         > and I suspect many people might be overwhelmed after
>         > joining, and won't participate. 
>         > 
>         > 
>         > Having a forum for our community would make it easier for
>         > users to register (and we could potentially include SSO for
>         > integration with our current Members system), and Discourse
>         > serves that purpose especially well with a clean interface
>         > that's easy for most newcomers to get a feel for.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > Discourse also supports many different integrations/plugins
>         > (https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=topic%
>         > 3Adiscourse-plugin&type=Repositories&ref=searchresults), for
>         > example, a voting plugin in particular
>         > (https://github.com/discourse/discourse-voting) would be a
>         > great addition to our current system, as it would allow for
>         > easy tabulation on new proposals.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > We could also categorize posts. We don't need (or want) to
>         > be notified by every single question newcomers might have,
>         > but we certainly don't want to discourage those kinds of
>         > posts. We could create a Q/A category with less pronounced
>         > notifications (or individual users can change their
>         > notification preferences from the defaults) so you can make
>         > sure you only need to see important discussions in the
>         > future.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > And finally, in addition to all the forum benefits,
>         > Discourse can also serve as a mailing list, for those of us
>         > who truly prefer email based discussions like this. In your
>         > user profile there would be an option to enable "Mailing
>         > list mode", which would send individual emails for either
>         > all posts or categories you wish to hear from on a regular
>         > basis. Switching should be a win-win for all community
>         > members, mailing list users will get to keep existing
>         > functionality, and we could gain a great new discussion
>         > platform, which will hopefully get more people to join in.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > If you all agree, I can spin up a Discourse server
>         > immediately and get everything working. I've managed a few
>         > Discourse communities for a while now so everything can be
>         > taken care of. I have server space at DigitalOcean to run it
>         > with redundancy so we don't have any issues with our
>         > platform going offline in the future.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > If you have any questions, please reply and I'll try to
>         > answer them. I'm also available on OpenNIC's IRC channel on
>         > Freenode (as jonaharagon).
>         > 
>         > 
>         > Thanks for reading all that, I'm hoping we'll be able to
>         > setup a new forum soon!

> 

-- 
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)