This would be really cool. I do use the forums a lot but navigating them (if you re not familiar with phpbb) can be tricky. Discourse is a bit more intuitive.
On Monday, October 29, 2018 11:31:54 AM PDT Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples at > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/ > > I went to a talk at the Embedded Linux Summit about how Fedora moved to use > Discourse. Similar to the discussion of moving away from IRC we had last > year I see people moving away from mailing lists and new contributors not > wanting to get into them. Our KDE Forums also look quite old school. In > Fedora they moved to Discourse and mailing lists and forums and saw a > marked increase in engagement. > > I think KDE should consider moving away from mailman and onto Discourse and > at the same time forum.kde.org could move to this more modern software. It > might also help cover Boud's use case of a user support method for people > with queries before the report a bug. > > More coverage on last week's LWN > https://lwn.net/Articles/768483/ > > Discussing it in person it was pointed out that we do already use > Phabricator Workboards for much discussion and it might well overlap > there, although I don't think that would be any more of an issue than > mailing lists overlapping. > > Jonathan -- Jacky Alcine Work: https://black.af Blog: https://jacky.wtf/weblog/
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