Apple's developer forums need to rewrite in Swift. On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Shawn Erickson via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > >
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