Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:08:37 + hellekin wrote: === > On IRC #devuan: hellekin: Can we PLEASE move on from > Discourse. Very few people are using it and those who are loathe it > for the most part. It's holding

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, My suggestion is to use phpbb3 which is in debian.org's repositories. There is no reason to use something else for a forum *assuming* Devuan is free to install what it sees fit on its servers. Edward -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Peter Olson
> On September 29, 2016 at 1:13 AM Edward Bartolo wrote: > > Hi, > > My suggestion is to use phpbb3 which is in debian.org's repositories. > There is no reason to use something else for a forum *assuming* Devuan > is free to install what it sees fit on its servers. > > Edward

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Dave Turner
Traffic on ye olde dng@lists.dyne.org has gone down a lot. Is it because of this new-fangled Discourse thing? DaveT On 28/09/16 21:38, hellekin wrote: On 09/28/2016 03:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Does anyone remember the great, text formatted, human created Devuan Weekly News? It's sad to think

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Jaromil
dears, On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Go Linux wrote: > Maybe someone else has something to say? Especially if you revel in beating a dead horse . . . of course the thread is still around and we are all reading, including hellekin. So far I (and just for one) stand by his strenous defense of a web

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread hellekin
On 09/28/2016 03:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Does anyone remember the great, text formatted, human created Devuan > Weekly News? It's sad to think the Devuan Weekly News was supplanted by > Discourse Digest. > Oh yes I do. After Envite burned out on it, I had to take a lot of my own time to

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Go Linux
Maybe someone else has something to say? Especially if you revel in beating a dead horse . . . - On Wed, 9/28/16, hellekin wrote: Subject: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums To: "dng" Date: Wednesday, September 28,

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:09:20PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > Traffic on ye olde dng@lists.dyne.org has gone down a lot. > Is it because of this new-fangled Discourse thing? I'll admit I don't miss the traffic. In fact, I had considered switching over to the announce list, but then the traffic

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Gregory Nowak (g...@gregn.net): > As for this new discourse thing ... I'm not a fan of forums, unless > it's a community I really want to be a part of, and forum is the only > way to participate. I much prefer to have e-mails end up in my inbox, > than to have to login somewhere, and look

[DNG] Amazon Linux AMI and systemd

2016-09-28 Thread Emiliano Marini
Still without systemd up to this date: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2016.09-release-notes/ I wonder what their plans are about it. Cheers, Emiliano. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread hellekin
On IRC #devuan: hellekin: Can we PLEASE move on from Discourse. Very few people are using it and those who are loathe it for the most part. It's holding back Devuan's community growth! Let me state it one last time, by email, so that it can be read by everyone and we can have a discussion