IMHO, here are some of the things we could improve upon for this community, in addition to a few that the OP suggested:
- cut down time spent on answering FAQ from new users, while getting new users up and running quickly - grow collective knowledge about seemingly niche and/or specialized areas (eg: depreciation, options trading, crypto) - centralize an index to plugins, importers, reporters, and other code A wiki might well address these, and is very low-effort to setup and test out. With the sentiment above that this should reduce dev's time spent on answering questions, Martin, you could do as little as simply enabling the github wiki and relying on crowdsourcing everything from organization to content from the community. Another user brought up <https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/jOqHyWwdTQk> Discourse earlier. Great arguments, and he seems to have a lot of experience with it. However, I've personally found Discourse to be distracting and painful, especially for the low/medium level of traffic on this forum. On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 12:10:02 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > I think a wiki (or any kind of knowledgebase) is the way to go. Since > Martin already has great writeups in Google Docs an import should be quite > easy plus linking between pages is built in rather than just pointing to > another thread to read. > > Forums tend to be "sign up" -> "ask question" -> "get answer" -> "vanish > forever". Which does not help that much in comparison to this mailing list. > On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 2:49:44 AM UTC [email protected] wrote: > >> Some people do the Discord thing. >> I find it too distracting. I don't have the time. >> Plus it's hit-or-miss when you show up whether the right people happen to >> me there or not. >> >> We probably should have some way for people to add / edit a shared KB. >> We've been working with Gdocs so far, not just me, but a few others as >> well. >> Would it be an improvement if I enabled the Wiki on the project? >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 8:37 PM Oon-Ee Ng <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 2:38 AM nug get <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear community, >>>> As a suggestion from my side, how about replacing this mailing group by >>>> a forum? >>>> >>>> pros: >>>> - potentially build a structured knowledge base that is helpful >>>> - user-generated how-to-content >>>> - control notifications >>>> - not spamming everyone with your new topic that might be interesting >>>> only to few people >>>> >>>> cons: >>>> -effort to set it up >>>> - ...? >>>> >>>> @Martin, in case you don't want to do the effort, would you allow me to >>>> set up the "official beancount forum"? should we discuss this further? >>>> >>> >>> Adding to the cons:- >>> - one additional venue for Martin in particular (and perhaps others) to >>> check, wasting time >>> - Additional internet ID/password combination, increasing threat surface >>> - decreased visibility of any particular topic since forums are by >>> nature segregated >>> >>> This isn't to vote against the proposal, just putting more context. I >>> believe forums should NOT involve the dev (especially the dev's time), as >>> I've seen how much of a time-suck they can be. >>> >>> A wiki would have most of the pros you list, btw, without requiring dev >>> time investment. >>> >>> -- >>> 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/CAGQ70et_RD%2BsFHDnh4kkvHQLzPmuHGVHwAzYF2qh1vOhm5MsNg%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAGQ70et_RD%2BsFHDnh4kkvHQLzPmuHGVHwAzYF2qh1vOhm5MsNg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- 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/29fd01db-5727-4063-ac88-51d8a6a3bcefn%40googlegroups.com.
