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

OK sorry about that confusion. I don't know much about Discourse but I will 
look more into it before I make a vote.

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-Dan Q

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:48:24 -0500, Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> 
wrote:

> That was Discord. This is an Open Source forum and mailing list manager. I
> linked to it's homepage in the original post.
> 
> Jonah
> 
> On Apr 19, 2017 3:45 PM, "Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> -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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