Hello, In response to the following topic (i.e., what are good candidates for user forums/platforms other than SourceForge),
https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/6440 I have tried searching the net and it seems to me that the situation is roughly like the following: * Pattern 1 : The language website itself provides a "built-in" forum. * Pattern 2 : Google Groups https://groups.google.com/forum/#!overview * Pattern 3 : Discourse https://www.discourse.org/ * Pattern 4 : Github issue pages (*) Pattern 5: (more "chat-like" services like Reddit, Gitter, HackerNews (?)...) ----- And various pages found for each language... * C++ https://isocpp.org/forums https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/std-discussion https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/std-proposals * D https://forum.dlang.org/ http://digitalmars.com/NewsGroup.html (old page?) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592769 (old news about the new forum) * Go https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts https://forum.golangbridge.org/ https://forum.golangbridge.org/t/welcome-to-the-go-forum/8 https://golang.org/help/ * Rust https://users.rust-lang.org/ * Nim https://forum.nim-lang.org/ https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum (run by this program?) * Julia https://julialang.org/community/ https://discourse.julialang.org/ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-users (not used now) https://gitter.im/JuliaLang/julia * Python I'm not sure which is the "official" forum... :-) * Fortran https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.fortran * Swift https://forums.developer.apple.com/community/xcode/swift https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/ * C# A lot ... (from Microsoft) * Kotlin https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/ https://kotlinlang.org/community/ * Scala https://www.scala-lang.org/community/ https://users.scala-lang.org/?_ga=2.236677193.918504109.1498691960-1666919074.1495278134 https://contributors.scala-lang.org/?_ga=2.200825261.283844884.1498692014-1666919074.1495278134 https://gitter.im/scala/scala ------ As for my experience, I used Google Groups sometimes to ask questions and feature requests before. IMO, a good point of Google Groups is that the "(mental) threshold" for posting something is very low (and, depending on moderation setting, also attracts spam!). A not very good point is that it does not support Markdown etc, so the feature is not very rich. # But looking at the Google Group pages for C++ and Go, code decoration might be possible to some extent because some people post a code in an enclosed box etc. As for Discourse, I have no experience of using it (e.g. ask questions etc), but its features seem pretty rich. Many languages seem to be using it recently (sometimes together with Google Groups). IMHO, I feel it would be very nice if there is some central forum(s) at which users can post almost "anything" (trivial questions, feature requests, news, etc) at a much lower level of strictness and threshold to write something. In particular, I think it would be great if more user <-> user discussion will be made in addition to user <-> developer or developer <-> developer discussions (because user <-> user discussions are not much suited to, say, Github issue pages nor StackOverflow.) # This user mailing list (from SourceForge) is also probably desinged for that purpose (partly for user <-> user), but but a threshold or ovehead for posting something might be somewhat higher than usual web-based forums. As for the desired features listed in https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/6440 -- ideally, an easy way to preserve the SourceForge mailing list archives I have no idea whether Google Groups or Discourse offer a "migration" feature like this... But as a simple workaround, it might be sufficient to put a URL link to the SourceForge mailing list page, e.g., at the top of new forum pages or an introduction page to facilitate the search for old topics? # I will copy (some of) the above URL if necessary to the Github issue page (6440); in that case please let me know. With best regards, Takeshi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Chapel-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chapel-users
