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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

This isn't the closed-source mobile app that everyone was suggesting to 
replace IRC is it? If so, I want nothing to do with it.

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-Dan Q


On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:49:10 +0000, Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Maybe that's indication it needs to be replaced.
> 
> 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!
> >
> > Jonah
> >
> >
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