I’ve recently pointed a few people on Reddit to this mailing list who were asking questions there. A forum would probably be a good thing to have.
I’m not familiar with Discourse but it looks pretty simple to spin up a digital ocean vps. <https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/discourse?utm_campaign=marketplace&utm_source=marketplace#api-creation> “Mail-in-a-box <https://mailinabox.email/>” makes it pretty easy to set up an email server. DigitalOcean probably isn’t the best platform for that. I have one I setup there but it took some time to get the larger mail providers to unblock it. That’s probably the case no matter how you approach that though. Using a 3rd party service like MailChimp might be easier but would probably cost more. Unfortunately I’m not in a position to donate any cash to this but I could spend some time on getting Discourse up and running on a DO vps if that’s a viable option. Kindest Regards, Bill Stephenson > On Mar 12, 2020, at 9:32 AM, Garren Smith <gar...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > The CouchDB slack channel has been a real success with lots of people > asking for help and getting involved. The main issue is that it is not > searchable so we often get people asking the same questions over and over. > The user mailing list is great in that sense that if you have subscribed to > it you have a searchable list of questions and answers. However, it's > really not user-friendly and judging by the fact that it has very low user > participation I'm guessing most people prefer to use slack to ask questions. > > I've been really impressed with how the FoundationDB forum[1] and the rust > internal forum work [2]. I find them easy to use and really encourage > participation. I would like to propose that we move our user and dev > discussion to Discourse or a forum that works as well as Discourse. I think > that would make it really easy for users of CouchDB to look up answers to > questions and get involved in the development discussion. > > I haven't checked yet, but I'm sure we could get all discourse threads to > automatically email back to the user and dev mailing list so that we still > fulfill our Apache requirements. > > I know its a big step away from what we're used to with our mailing lists, > but I think it would definitely open up our community. > > Cheers > Garren > > > [1] https://forums.foundationdb.org/ > [2] https://internals.rust-lang.org/
