Re: [worldof]gnome forums

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

We can get set up the needed accesses to all the volunteers that will request them to help cleaning up the existing forums. As I said in my email earlier we'll be either migrating to our self-hosted istance or clean up forums.worldofgnome.org and make it more suitable for the use it's meant for. Hosting our own forums will probably make the forums more "official" though and that's definitely a great advantage both for users and developers.

cheers,

2013/10/16 Christian Schaller <cschalle linuxrising org>

Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:

The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it should be live again soon.

cheers,

2013/10/15 Andrea Veri <av gnome org>

I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really looks like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.org with a big plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and possibly by a team of moderators.

As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time and the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap.

cheers,

[1] http://www.discourse.org/

2013/10/14 Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>

Hi;

we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official
forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/ under
'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the GNOME
logo.

However, those forums are overrun with spam:

- *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on the
  forums) are spam words.

- Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at
  http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content
  itself is all spam, as well.

So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think
we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should
rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo.

Regards,
        Christian
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