On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 5:47 AM Barry Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 30 Nov 2022, at 01:03, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 5:33 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't do social media. I won't start now. I refuse to be the product > on a private platform. > > I am the same way, but forums need not be social media and are essential for any community that wants to embrace new users. Many of my younger colleagues are not interested in email lists (because their email gets overwhelmed by SPAM). Its not social media. Its discourse that is open source. > > Python and fedora already have discourse servers up and working. > > discuss.python.org and https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ > > Personally I find them easy to use and better then email mainly because i > can use markup to format code and other text. > > I have been using remote sensing forums from ESA and NASA for years. Forums are essential for remote sensing as you need to be able to share images. so have been used in this community for decades. The ESA Forum sends email with replies to my posts. A simple reply can be made with email, but I generally find it easier to reply using the forum software. I do worry that bad actors will find ways to drive people away from forums: NASA recently replaced the remote sensing forum I was using with a section in a forum that supports many different NASA Earth Data programs. NASA gets a lot of attention from bad actors, so in addition to an Earth Data user login, the new forum requires a CAPTCHA code for each post. If I take too long researching a response the CAPTCHA expires, so I have to compose a complex response offline. This has greatly reduced the number of active participants. A colleague once suggested that access to specialized resources should require a correct answer to a "skiill testing" question. Recently the NASA and ESA forums have seen an increase in (new) users posting images with error messages where text would be better because the current search tools don't scan images (I often r eply to such posts with OCR text so searches will find the thread). The current education system doesn't teach students how to report problems (platform details, steps to reproduce the problem) so the forums have started getting too many posts with titles like "How to I solve Error: permission denied". -- George N. White III
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