Steve, a brave suggestion. This group's traffic has decreased dramatically in recent years. I presume we're all world-class experts now and don't need to ask questions that often! A fresh forum with a modern UI and features sounds quite attractive, as opposed to an old fashioned e-mailing list, but we'd have to get all interested people motivated to move and register, which as you know with IT people is like herding cats. There are no guarantees we'd become more active after the move.
Discourse looks a little bit like Meetup, or the Xamarin forums. I suppose privacy is the same or better, as all posts to this group are somehow indexed and turn up in searches, but Discourse has private groups which I expect won't get indexed. Oh, I just noticed you have to host it yourself, or pay for their hosting. Double-Oh! I just read this: What was it built with? <https://www.discourse.org/faq/#tech> Discourse is a JavaScript application that runs in your web browser, using the Ember.js <https://emberjs.com/> framework. Cheers, *Greg K* On 3 April 2017 at 17:00, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com> wrote: > It's been some years since the big move to Mr Connors gracious hosting of > the eList. Thanks for that by the way David! > > For whatever reason it lives on, despite the low traffic. Perhaps it's the > entertainment value of people who live/vent there. Hard to measure. I > expect David would have a way to tell how many people are still on the > list. > > I do think Aussie developers deserve/need our own identity, and our own > community. Well, it does exist but I do wonder if other forums might better > suit the needs (and yet still we are here with people subscribed...). > > As an Admin of the current group (workload of said role is rather low. ie > It's been almost ten years since I had to do anything Admin like. The Admin > list seems to be gone) > > I've noticed that Discourse.org now exists and is open source. And Free. > And has code highlighting built in. And also has elist delivery out of the > box. As well as a web interface if that floats your boat. Ticks all the > boxes from what we were looking for many years ago. > > Full feature list is here https://www.discourse.org/about/ > > I'd like to propose we move to it and actively promote it once it's all up > and running. Given the lists currently existing cover a few different > topics, not just AusDotNet, we should move them all over. Except > Silverlight. Don't even talk to me about that. Just don't. Ok? > > Seriously, stop looking at me. > > So how do we brand it? OzDev? Did we ever end up with a domain name? It > would be a good time to get one if not. > > The best part about this is David will have to do most of the work, but if > we still have any Admins left on this list (maybe it's just me and David?) > assistance would be good, just put your hand up. > > I have a fond memory of the AusDotNet list and have been on it for my > entire developer career. It's been invaluable. Time to bring it kicking and > screaming into the Internet of today, a limelight for fellow Aussie > developers both existing, and yet to be. We have a big community and I'd > like to be able to give back to it. > > Will do some work on a logo (or outsource it to my daughter who'd doing a > graphic design degree)... > > Discuss. > Stephen > >
