Re: Start a forum - continued - Discourse forum example

On 2018-01-06 11:57, Jochen Theodorou wrote: Is there somewhere an example for this? And mailing lists I can look at and a discourse forum that is synced with it? http://discuss.dramatica.com/ (a software package site 'dramatica' - concetrating on Screen

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I personally use Nabble. It does not compare to a real forum system. The formatting constantly breaks, you can't mention users, embed media, embed code... the list goes on and on. -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html

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Hi Jochen, I would like to once again stress the flow you can expect with Discourse. You sign up one time, and check a box that you want to receive emails. You will receive emails for every new post, and you can reply straight from email. In this it is exactly like a mailing list and would

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By the way, let's not forget we already have a forum that works with our mailing-lists: ie. the Nabble forum! See at the bottom of the page the integration: http://www.groovy-lang.org/mailing-lists.html On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote: > On 02.01.2018

Re: Start a forum - continued

On 02.01.2018 04:45, Nathan Harvey wrote: Once again I would like to bring up the idea of starting a forum using Discourse. In particular, I would like to highlight some of the features Discourse offers that are relevant to the mailing list, for those concerned about making the switch: -

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To be honest, I won't be monitoring the forum, as 1) there's enough to read and interact with here, and 2) it's not what Apache recommends. So if ever someone wants to setup an unofficial forum (I'm not against it), it should send emails to the lists somehow and receive emails too, if you want us

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Hi Nathan, It's easy to discuss via a forum, so I vote +1 here. According to Apache policy, we should discuss via mailing lists, so the forum integrate with the mailing lists to exchange messages between the two system. Whether the forum is official or not, the forum will attract