Is dinky carrying on with maintenance of get_iplayer? Because if not it's all a bit moot, the BBC will change something that breaks it within a few months. And if he is carrying on maintenance, how will he post new versions and release notes if he's not on the forums? (OK that all used to be done on here but I doubt dinky is coming back here.)
-- Owen Smith <[email protected]> Cambridge, UK > On 12 Apr 2020, at 18:18, Dave Lambley <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> On April 12, 2020 4:49 PM Roger Bell_West <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 03:32:17PM +0100, SquarePenguin wrote: >>> 2) I close the forums to new threads/posts but keep it online. >>> >>> This is great for keeping the resource accessible to the community, it's a >>> PITA for maintenance and ongoing costs (it ain't free to host the forums). >> >> 2a) possibly in addition to this, start a new forum with better >> software? I don't use the forum because I don't get on with the >> standard interface; but I find that Discourse is remarkably >> non-painful to run. > > I was not aware that there even was web forum, but I am painfully aware how > forums can become unpleasant. The one Discourse forum I am on however is > remarkably non-toxic. > > All the best, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
