I second this praise. FWIW, I recently installed Discourse using a DigitalOcean droplet, and it couldn't have been easier. Upgrades are surprisingly easy, too.
I have yet to figure out the email integration; I hope you can get that working. I also hope you give some effort to improving on the default Discourse look. It's not bad, but I feel like it doesn't do a good job of delineating functional areas on the page. Having said that, I'm more than happy to wait indefinitely for such an improvement; it's not worth holding up the roll-out. Thanks again! > On Feb 8, 2017, at 19:34 , Joshua Alvarado via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎊 > This is an awesome decision and a huge enhancement for the Swift community. > Thanks (Core Team) for taking the time to entertain the discussion and move > forward with what many community members have wanted. > > Alvarado, Joshua > >> On Feb 8, 2017, at 5:03 PM, Ted kremenek via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> There was a long thread on swift-evolution about whether we should use >> modern forum software — like Discourse — as an alternative to the mailing >> lists we have now. After a long discussion, the Core Team has decided to >> move swift-evolution and swift-users to Discourse. >> >> There are tradeoffs to moving to a forum. The main advantages are: >> >> - Easy for people to participate without subscribing to the entire mailing >> list, as well as no need to provide email address to participate. A lot of >> people have voiced concern that they feel resistance to participate because >> of needing to subscribe to a mailing list. >> >> - Consistent affordances and rendering of content, including Markdown >> support. This is really useful for having technical discussions. >> >> - Better searching of topics, archiving, etc. >> >> - More tools for moderation. >> >> - Topic cross-referencing, and consistent organization of topics instead of >> whatever threading support a mail client provides (which is inconsistent). >> >> I also want to consider moving the -dev lists to the same forum setup as >> well; but that will be a separate conversation on those lists. >> >> A rollout plan has not been figured out. People are busy and there are >> logistics to figure out. I will be engaging a handful of members from the >> community to help with the transition. Specifically, there are those who >> really value using email for participation on swift-evolution and >> swift-users, and the goal is to get the forum setup to allow those people to >> continue to feel effective when using email for discussions on these "lists". >> >> More details will be announced as they get figured out, but I felt it was >> important to let the community know about this direction. >> >> Ted >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution