I concur on the general weakness of Apple's developer forums as they currently exist.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:23 AM Jon Shier via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > Just wanted to point out that Apple’s forum software is pretty terrible, > even after two (apparent) rewrites. It’s buggy, navigates differently from > other forum software, doesn’t render code inline very well, and it doesn’t > offer the integrations that Discourse does. > > > > Jon > > On Aug 3, 2016, at 7:52 PM, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2016, at 4:11 PM, David Owens II via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > > But does it already surpass the limits? > > • There is a bandwidth limit of 100k monthly page views, equivalent to > our Standard hosting plan. > • If you exceed our bandwidth limit – which is very unlikely, unless your > project is enormous – you have two options: > • We’ll help you move to self-hosting, either on your own server or any > Docker compatible cloud (a $20/month Digital Ocean droplet should suffice). > • Upgrade to our Business hosting plan at 50% off. > > > I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s close if not passed 100k monthly views > already. > > The big unknown is also around the mailing list support. Is it super > robust and work as well for communicating as the mailing currently does? I > don’t know. I’ve not been involved with large projects on discourse. > > > Apple has a lot of money; I doubt being unable to go with the free option > would be a big dealbreaker. > > It should probably be mentioned, though, that Apple already has a > developer forum set up, and a server to run it on, and everything. Is there > any reason they couldn’t just use that? > > Charles > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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