On Wed, 8 Oct 2025, Thomas Adam wrote:
Since FVWM's inception, the primary way of communicating with each other
about the project was via its mailing list. In fact, that mailing list
is still active today.
I hope the mailing list will remain.
In the early-to-mid 2000s, fvwm.lair.be (via theBlackDragon) created the
FvwmForums, which still exist today, albeit migrated from phpBB to
Discourse.
since then the use of the forums have been in decline.
I wonder whether the migration to Discourse has not been a cause for
decline. I alway felt ill at ease with Discourse-managed forums. In
general I use them only to ask a specific question which interests me, or
have a look every week or so. On the contrary I keep phpbb always there in
a browser tab with the "new posts" area, and check them very frequently.
Added to which is the overhead of maintenance of the system in terms of
keeping the forums software updated and the underling OS.
Just for curiosity, were you affected also by AI scrapers ? Almost all
phpbb forums I frequent have been hit, in some cases with overload errors,
in other with slowdown. The unaffected one has been protected with Anubis
What I'd like to do is shut the forums down, and for any other community
questions or engagement, point people to the Discussions area of Github:
Hmm ... I've never been familiar with Github. I hope the mailing list will
remain.
On the other hand luckily fvwm is a mature and stable product (so few
support requests are likely) ... and we have to thank you and the team for
that.
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