Hello community and its leaders who make decisions about the means used for communication within the community.
May I draw Discourse <https://www.discourse.org/about> to your attention as a possible replacement to the current mailing list? It is a very sophisticated open source solution that not only replicates all mailing list features, but also acts as a public forum with lots of features, from categories/tags to per-topic notification levels, with all features you can think of from syntax highlighting to reply-by-email. Having used it to help setup and run multiple communities over the years, I am certain that using it helps any community flourish and draws more attention to the target product around which the community is formed. Here is the introductory post that highlights main features: https://www.discourse.org/about This FAQ compares Discourse to mailing lists: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-email-mailing-lists/54298 If you would like to give it a try, I can help setup an instance of Discourse at a VPS of your choice. Or you can apply for a free hosting for Open Source projects <https://free.discourse.group/>. Finally, one example of Discourse running as a discussion platform for an accounting software would be the Manager Forum <https://forum.manager.io/>. After familiarizing myself with Ledger, HLedger, and eventually Beancount, and after reading your article about the conceptual / phylosophical difference between Beancount and the others, I fell in love with Beancount immediately - because of the fundamental principles the author put at the core of the product. Then my attempt to dive into discussions followed, which made me feel a bit lost and confused as Google-based mailing list lacks some of the great features that Discourse offers out of the box. Hence my immediate irresistible will to write this email and let the community leaders consider the possibility of using Discourse. Do you think it is worth the time discussing this? Many thanks, Anton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2bc24d9b-b3e6-4aa9-ae77-f1192ce50cdbn%40googlegroups.com.
