http://www.howtoinstalldiscourse.com/how-to-setup-an-amazon-ec2-instance-to-host-discourse-for-free-manual-install/
The installation process is pretty simple it seems. We can use free tier for an year, of course, that based on the traffic we get on the forum. I will give it a spin and see how it goes. On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 7:23 AM Sreenivas Alapati <[email protected]> wrote: > I would also vote for discourse. Its really neat. Regarding server, we can > look into getting an aws account and host it over there. Its very cheap and > highly scalable. Based on the traffic of previous mypaint forum we can > choose a tyre and start with it. > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 12:46 AM Albert Westra <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Discourse will do all and it's also mobile friendly unlike the old fourm. >> The problem is that we would need someone to donate server space and power >> and to run and maintain it. However we would be independent and not tied >> down by the limitations of Tumbler, deviantart, google, ect just like it >> was before. >> >> However, an alternative would be to use Google Plus Community groups >> which are nice as well. I've maintaining one for Jupiter Broadcasting for a >> couple of years now and it working fine for me.The only downside is that >> people would need a Google account which may be unsettling for more of the >> privacy concern people. But as far as "free forums" are concern this would >> be the best option. >> >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 7:59 AM Andrew Chadwick <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> What would we need from a new forums system if we chose to go that >>> way? Just a few ideas here: >>> >>> - A really important aspect of the forums is to let people share their >>> artwork, painting tips, and resources (and frustrations, general >>> comments on the world, inspirations...) >>> >>> - A WYSIWYG post editor would be needed, with simple ways of doing >>> multimedia attachments. We're dealing with regular people here, not >>> programmers. >>> >>> - I'd probably replace any bug report subforums with just a link to >>> the issue tracker :) The same might be said for suggestions too, or we >>> could declare the forums as bluesky thinking / possibly-impractical >>> brainstorming territory and the tracker as the place to bring your >>> idea when you have mockups and snippets of code etc. (Shorter: don't >>> make me think it through for you!) >>> >>> - We'd need file upload for resource sharing. >>> >>> Question is, do more modern approaches like curated Tumblrs (e.g. >>> http://made-with-mypaint.tumblr.com/) or uses of Github fit some/any >>> of these requirements? >>> >>> - There is already a PR for splitting out the brush collection to a >>> submodule or a separate project. But it would still be "the brushes >>> that ship with MyPaint", not a distribution system. >>> >>> - Currently the Wiki is open and editable, and is also the place we >>> link brushes from. But they're only links. >>> >>> - We're not going to know about good proposals coming through the >>> system unless people share them as PRs or new issues. But maybe that's >>> OK? >>> >>> >>> On 15 November 2015 at 15:42, Andrew Chadwick <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > TBH, maintaining forums would be just a headache for me. If we want >>> > those, I would have to hand over moderation duties basically >>> > completely because I simply don't have the time for it. >>> > >>> > Sorry for being so lax on monitoring the forums. If they come back in >>> > their existing form, I will have to hand over the reins on them to >>> > someone else. >>> > >>> > The issue tracker is OK for program feature proposals, and great for >>> > program bug reports (of course). It's greate for making Big Important >>> > Decisions too. However I feel it'd be an awful place for artist >>> > community growth. I need more active report triagers already, and >>> > would need active post moderators too if we start using it as "the >>> > forums", whatever that might mean. >>> > >>> > There will even come a time when we have to crack down on feature >>> > proposals on the issue tracker, I worry. I'm becoming burnt out by a >>> > recent flush of (pretty good) suggestions already, so it's clear that >>> > even the current picture doesn't scale. >>> > >>> > >>> > On 15 November 2015 at 04:54, Albert Westra <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> Jeykll is a good CMS to use and has a good size user base so good >>> support >>> >> and good amount of available themes. Hugo is Faster and simpler to >>> use, and >>> >> uses Markdown like Jeykll. After thinking about I would go for Jeykll >>> since >>> >> speed isn't really necessary and most people would be familiar with >>> Jeykll. >>> >> >>> >> Now what do we do about the forum? We could switch to discorse, but >>> that >>> >> will still require someone to maintain a server. Or do we just expand >>> the >>> >> issue tracker and use the mailing lists more? Discouse dose mainly >>> use tags >>> >> just like how the issue tracker uses lables. Me personally I would >>> just >>> >> expand the issue tracker. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015, 8:34 PM Andrew Chadwick <[email protected] >>> > >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> http://mypaint.org and http://www.mypaint.org should now be up and >>> >>> running with a tiny placeholder site. No redirects to other domains. >>> >>> >>> >>> I've asked our DNS hosting provider, who also host the redirect >>> sites, >>> >>> to point [www].mypaint.info at mypaint.org. IMO this is a good >>> >>> redirect to have, since I've been secretly rewriting links to point >>> at >>> >>> mypaint.org for about a year. >>> >>> >>> >>> It may be that we have to just migrate the old content somewhere >>> else, >>> >>> which could be interesting. >>> >>> If we do that, perhaps it's worth rebuilding the site properly. >>> >>> >>> >>> Any modern CMS or site builder that allows gh-pages hosting would be >>> >>> great for sharing out the site work. I just happen to like Jekyll >>> >>> because it's there in my Debian distribution (so lazy). Markdown >>> >>> appeals to my programmer brain and makes nice diffs. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Mypaint-discuss mailing list >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Mypaint-discuss mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Andrew Chadwick >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Andrew Chadwick >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mypaint-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mypaint-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss >> > -- > http://cg-cnu.blogspot.in/ > https://github.com/cg-cnu > -- http://cg-cnu.blogspot.in/ https://github.com/cg-cnu
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