I like the idea of some change in the Trisquel forums. There is certainly
room for improvement.
1) I think that for the Trisquel project at the moment it is better to stick
to a single place for information and discussion, instead of creating an
additional new forum like yours.
2) We can easily and quickly improve some aspects of our forum here, such as
a getting a button to click on for adding html links, using the existing
forum software, Advanced Forum. I wish that such available functionality were
added. This could be achieved while still keeping the discussion in one of
the modules built into Drupal, the progam on which the Trisquel website runs.
In the hope of speeding this up, here is a list of Drupal Advanced Forum
modules that could be added without too much difficulty:
Flag + Flag Abuse
Privatemsg
Subscriptions
ACL + Forum Access
Author Pane
AutoAssignRole
CAPTCHA + reCAPTCHA
Comment Permissions
Comment Upload
Custom Search
Flatcomments
Override Node Options
Private Upload
Quote
User stats
3) If we were to upgrade our forum software here, for example, to reduce spam
(a critical bug) and improve user experience, I suggest using Vanilla Forums,
for which there is a Drupal plugin. Vanilla is fully free, has commercial
backing behind it and has several modern functionalities. Vanilla POP also
could support mailing lists, which is how many people read the content on
this "forum".
