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On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, 20:56 Luca Beltrame, <lbeltr...@kde.org> wrote: > Il giorno Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:31:54 +0000 > Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> ha > scritto: > > contributors not wanting to get into them. Our KDE Forums also look > > quite old school. In Fedora they moved to Discourse and mailing > > lists and forums and saw a marked increase in engagement. > > "Old school" because few people are willing (if any) to put up with > maintenance. This has been going for quite a while, unfortunately. > > I have my fair share of issues with Discourse (I run into it daily when > checking the support forum of my router): > > - As far as I remember, they *only* supported deployment with Docker. > This is is IMO a terrible and black-magic approach > - It uses (used to use?) PostgreSQL as database, for which Sysadmin > isn't really keen on using unless absolutely necessary > - The UX is not as best as it looks, hijacks stuff like the back button > on the browser and what not > - The "app" on mobile is a joke, basically a web view of the mobile page > > > I think KDE should consider moving away from mailman and onto > > Does Discourse have a mail interface to avoid breaking user workflows? > How should a migration be handled? Don't forget we'll lose distributed > archiving of the mailing lists as well (very useful). > > > Discourse and at the same time forum.kde.org could move to this more > > What about the old posts? Did anyone consider a migration? We don't want > to lose old content, after all. > > Also, don't forget that "should", to quote a seminar I was at recently, > should become "I/we/they will". If no one is willing to put support > with the (aged! I'm not saying it's perfect) forum infrastructure why > do you think one would put up with the new? > > > >