Scott, An upgrade was needed and it should be working now.
-Terence. On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 7:21 AM Scott Dunbar <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm unable to access the discourse site due to some CORS issues. Is there > work still being done? > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:28 AM Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've alluded to this in a couple posts but wanted to formally announce >> and soft-launch the new forum tool hosted by Mifos for both the Mifos and >> Fineract communities. You can check it out and begin posting at >> https://discourse.mifos.org. http://forum.mifos.org should redirect to >> there as well. Just click sign up to get going! Yo >> >> Discourse blends the best of both worlds of forums and mailing lists >> along with added tools for gamification and badging. This forum will >> provide a robust and user-friendly medium of collaboration that will nicely >> complement and augment the Fineract developer mailing list and Gitter >> chatrooms we already have. It will allow us to consolidate over time some >> of other collaboration channels like the Mifos mailing lists and >> MifosConnect Q&A platform. It will also enable new forms of collaboration >> by providing an effective medium for free-form discussion across the >> community beyond just developing or using the software, i.e. industry >> trends, etc as well as power our jobs and services marketplace to help >> connect users with paid support offerings. >> >> *How to Join * >> We are in the process of migrating user accounts from Google Groups but >> right now the best means to start using the forum is to click Sign Up from >> the top link - you can create an account using your existing Facebook, >> Google, or Github logins. After creating an account, feel free to edit your >> profile too so others can know more about yourself. >> >> *Share Your Feedback* >> This is a soft launch - we're working on user migration, migration of old >> posts/content, continuing to refine categories and topics, badges - we >> welcome any and all feedback and bugs or usability issues to fix. Old >> content still needs to be cataloged as well. Feedback on the Forum itself >> can be added in the Meta Category. If interested in acting as a moderator, >> please let me know and I'll add you. >> >> Read on below for some of the benefits of the tool. We'll put all this in >> a blog post with a few more details (namely around notifications/emails, >> etc.) to help you get the most out of the tool. >> >> Thanks to Kerlyn who led the setup and configuration of Discourse along >> with migration of content from our Google Groups as part of her Outreachy >> internship. >> >> *Improved User Experience Over Mailing Lists* >> >> - Highly Searchable and Indexable - posts are both very discoverable >> via the forum itself but also positioned well in Google searches (which is >> a downside of the Apache mailing list archives) >> - Ease of Posting - WYSIWYG editor >> - Mailing List Functionality - You have a range of options to be >> notified- for each topic you create you will automatically get >> notifications, you can also watch topics to get notified, and get notified >> when someone tags you in the topic (@username). To modify the settings for >> a topic, click the box below and select "Watching, Tracking, Normal, or >> Muted". You can also get notifications at category and subcategory levels. >> To enable these notifications via email, you must navigate to your >> personal >> settings --> email and turn on mailing list mode. You'll then receive an >> email per post and can reply via email or create new topics via email. >> - Better Navigation - topics are organized by category and >> sub-category along with tags. >> - Better moderation of topics >> >> *Augments other Communication Channels* >> Discourse will nicely augment the fineract mailing list and the Mifos >> Gitter chatrooms - there's been a lot of interest in a community-wide slack >> channel and we a more robust asynchronous communication channel is better >> than a real-time chat tool. >> >> - Reduce noise and chatter that's on the public mailing list >> - Provide a more interactive and widespread channel for communication >> than the mailing list but not as open-ended as Slack or Gitter. >> >> *Consolidation* >> >> - With the Fineract Dev list as the main community mailing list, the >> intent of the Mifos Discourse forum is to phase out our Mifos developer >> and >> user mailing lists by providing a forum-like tool that you can reply to >> via >> email. With it's Q&A features and ability to mark posts as solved, we're >> going to use the Support Section to replace our Q&A Platform, Mifos >> Connect. >> >> *Improved Collaboration* >> Discourse' feature set and library of plug-ins will help to improve >> collaboration >> >> - Working Groups - categories and/or groups can be used for our >> specific working groups like DFS, Scalability & Performance, etc. >> - Improved community identity - Profiles and in the future badges can >> help community members better self-identify and discover others. >> - Jobs & Services Marketplace - the forum like-capability and >> centrality of Discourse will allow us to reinvigorate our previous attempt >> at a jobs marketplace which never took off on mobile.io. >> - Polls and other features - a wide variety of other tools like >> polls, events etc can be explored to help the community. >> >> Discourse is used by a lot of our peer projects like ODK and OpenMRS so >> we can share in the many lessons learned and best practices they've >> attained. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ed >> > > > -- > Scott Dunbar > Cell: 303 667 6343 >
