On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 07:16 -0500, Ian Clarke wrote: > > This is why Ian is talking about "a ground-up redesign". What's > > suggested is that it won't be a "migration". > > Exactly. We need to start fresh with the structure and the copy, > keeping the main site much more focussed on educating new users about > Freenet, and helping them get up-and-running. More detailed content > can initially remain on the current site, but we should migrate it to > Github Wiki. > > I guess there is a separate debate about whether we should continue > to host our own wiki or use Github. Almost every other active open > source project I know of avoids hosting their own web servers unless > absolutely necessary - and with good reason. Why would we endure the > burden of maintaining a web server, with the implied security and > scalability headaches, when someone else will do it for us for free? >
We have had bad experiences with sourceforge in the past... github is just the fancier, modern sourceforge. That being said, I'm all for externalizing the wikis and minimizing the sysadmin. I've always been against us running mediawiki... or any form of non-static website. If you look at the history, no one except developers contributes anyway. https://wiki.freenetproject.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&d ays=30&from=&limit=500 Florent
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