Re: Moving from mailing lists to Discourse

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

Emmaneule,

at ardour.org, we recently switched from using Drupal forums to Discourse.
The results have been delightful. We managed to get single sign on
integration with our existing site working, which was important for us, but
probably not so much for a GTK Discourse. More notably, once you figure out
how to get the settings right, the integration with email was also a
pleasure. The move has definitely made our forums more active, easier to
manage, nicer to interact with and has also largely solved the spam
problems that we had before, even when we used Mollum. So ... although our
needs and goals were slightly different from yours, I can say that for us,
the move was very successful and we like Discourse very much.

--p


On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 4:46 AM Emmanuele Bassi via gtk-list <
gtk-list gnome org> wrote:

> [Cross-posted to various relevant mailing lists; please, reply to
> gtk-devel-list]
>
> As part of an attempt at making GTK more friendly to newcomers, I and
> other core developers were thinking of moving the mailing lists from the
> current mailman installation to Discourse:
>
>   https://discourse.org/
>
> Possibly still hosted on GNOME infrastructure, depending on the
> requirements for our sysadmins.
>
> The GTK project would have various sub-topics, mostly around development
> with and of GTK. Having a better archive search, a better moderation
> system, and a decent web UI are the major selling points for switching to
> Discourse. The fact that the project is also open source is neatly aligned
> with our values.
>
> Are there any objections? Did somebody already try out Discourse and has
> opinions about it that they want to share with the community?
>
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
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