On Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 08:27 Haudy Kazemi <kaze0...@umn.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > A few thoughts: > > Is the idea that this will be self-hosted somewhere? >
Self hosted, our infrastructure is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Apparently I should be mentioning that here too instead of just in our blog ;-) > > Or that it will be small enough to fit on the free service tiers? That is > 50k monthly content requests like page/message/thread views and 5 GB > storage. > https://free.discourse.group > > The paid tiers can get pricey: > https://www.discourse.org/pricing > > Discourse does appear to offer email to forum bridging for those who > prefer to receive and send messages via an email client of their choice. > Here is one group's info about this topic: > https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-email-settings/116 > > As long as the list archives are available somewhere, I don't think it is > necessary to actually import those archives into a replacement tool or > forum. > The problem is the archives aren't static and need abandoned software to "stay as the are". I can dump then in a container to limit risk, but that's still not ideal. I personally prefer email, at least for lower volume groups like this. It > seems a forum with a full bidirectional bridge to email would be > functionally equivalent. > > I am not sure user import is necessary. Also, some people may not want to > be signed up on hosted Discourse or another service with their current > names/user accounts/email addresses. > > An alternative approach is a self-signup period, announced regularly on > the current list, where everyone is encouraged to signup in the new space > but not use it for posting except testing. > > Then follow up with a cutover date where all posts should go to the new > system, and old system is made read only (except for sending a few more > sign up reminder messages). > I've been considering something like this, thanks for your input. > -hk > > > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 05:00 Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com> wrote: > >> Greetings Programs! >> >> As some of you may be aware, we've been in the process of transitioning >> our email lists to a new server. Well, managing email in 2022 is tedious >> and unforgiving so it's taking forever and I always have a ton more on >> my plate that's easier to do. >> >> As such, the idea has come up to migrate to Discource instead. Because >> of this, I'm trying to see how others feel about this and how we should >> go about importing things. They are listed below. >> >> I've tried looking to see if I can anonymize the archive, but haven't >> found anything mentioning that as a possibility yet. >> >> Please respond as soon as possible as I would really like to start on >> this migration no later than 2022-10-14. >> >> When it comes to this migration, are you for or against it? (Please >> answer yes/no/doesn't matter) >> >> When it comes to this migration, would you like to have users imported >> into the new system? (Please answer yes/no/doesn't matter) >> > > It is pretty to not require signing up again. > > >> >> When it comes to the archives, would you prefer to have it imported into >> the new system? (Please answer yes/no/doesn't matter) >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> de...@pidgin.im >> https://lists.pidgin.im/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: https://lists.pidgin.im/listinfo/support