Hi Chris, On 20 November 2017 at 19:04, Chris Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > Alternately, we could probably pick up and move the current forum software > to different hosting. I don't use the actual forum so I'm not aware of what > issues it might be having that might need fixing, or if it should just be > dumped entirely.
The forum has long been been under strain from the need for moderation and moderation being tackled by too few people. We've done quite a few calls for help but over the last years the only one to properly step up to the plate and help out is Sebastian. The forum is also hosted on a server we don't have access to and is there through benevolence of Art Tev's, he can't maintain it forever though. We moving from the existing forum sever I also want to tackle the moderator issue - we can't have members of the community having their time sucked up with admin duties if we can avoid it. As much as possible we should be coding and communicating with each other rather than chasing admin tasks. I also feel that the community isn't busy as it once was, we are well established project now, we don't have quite the same seat of the pants/trying to keep ahead of the big wave that we once had when 30 or 40 posts a day were the norm. Given a quieter community I think the overheads associated with maintaining the forum should be come down proportionally, if we can make the need for moderators a thing of past then this would be a good step forward. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
