Regarding your comment on Discourse. Why do you think it would be a bad choice? I don't know nothing about it but it seems like it's poppular for open source communities.
It even has a emacs mode. On Thu, 21 Aug 2025, Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltst...@posteo.de> wrote: > On 8/21/25 15:53, Olivier Dion wrote: >> Hello fellow Guilers, >> >> Would there be interest for having a Guile forum for the community? A >> place to share ideas, projects, recipes and ask questions. >> >> Currently, the Guile community has the IRC channel and a user mailing >> list. The IRC channel is volatile and logged but search engines do not >> seem to be indexing the logs. The mailing list on the other hand is >> archived online and is indeed indexed, but it is not trivial to search >> in it, even for people used to it. We also have some sparse blog posts >> there and there. >> >> I think it would be great to have a forum as a persistent and easily >> searchable means of communication. I also believe it would be a way to >> bound together different communities, e.g. Guix, Hoot, lilypond >> >> Of course, I expect no less than the entire web-site to be written in >> Guile with Hoot + a Emacs package to browse it. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Regards, >> old > > Hello Olivier, > > I agree, that it would be cool to have a forum. (Just please not another > dysfunctional discourse forum ...) > > I have thought about starting to develop a forum several times, and of course > in > my favorite language GNU Guile. So far the state of database connectors and > tooling around that, and the sheer amount of work needed to make an OKish > forum, > including things like login and possibly OAuth2 or stuff like that, has kept > me > from even starting. In theory it sounds doable, but in reality I think it is > a > lot of work. Probably some useful libraries in the area of web development > would > fall out of this, if attempted. > > Haven't developed any Emacs package or anything with Hoot yet. > > Perhaps someone more productive than me, and with the required energy can get > a > forum implementation started. Or perhaps it could be done iteratively, by > planning ahead what libraries are needed and those being separate projects, > that > aim for making them nice to work with in conjunction. (Wait, that might be > called a web framework ...) > > I think a traditional PHP (ugh) Bulletin Board forum or something like that > might also work though. Not eating our own dog food, but at least we would > already get a forum. I have thought about setting up an oldschool kinda forum > many times for friends and myself, but never did it, because of being lazy or > thinking no one would use it. But for a programming language community, it > could > work. A forum though, needs moderators. Maybe less so than many other > communities, but still. > > Best regards, > Zelphir > > -- > repositories: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl > -- Olivier Dion oldiob.ca
