FWIW, I am an admin over a private Discourse forum as far as forum software goes, it's pretty darn good and as Vincent said, I do use the mailing list option, so most of the time I just keep up to date via email, but then have the power discussion options of the forum when needed.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < [email protected]> wrote: > I guess we can try it. > > Thanks, > Caty > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi devs, > > > > I’m proposing to vote for moving away from our users and devs mailing > list > > and instead to use the Discourse open source tool: > > > > * Home page: http://www.discourse.org/ > > * License: GPL v2 > > * FAQ: http://www.discourse.org/faq/ > > * Awesome feature list: http://www.discourse.org/about/ > > > > What is especially interesting for us: > > * It works with mailing lists (you can receive mails and send mails to > the > > forum). > > * Works as a forum. BTW if you want to see a real life instance, check > the > > gradle instance at https://discuss.gradle.org/ > > > > Nice things: > > * Works on mobile > > * Comprehensive API (would allow us to integrate it with xwiki.org) > > * Badges/user metrics > > > > So here’s my +1 to try it out and ask XWiki SAS if they could host an > > instance. > > > > WDYT? Do you see any negative point (I don’t ATM)? :) > > > > Please cast your votes! > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > -- Keith Davis 214-906-5183
