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[Seb Ruiz]

2009/7/17 Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org>:
> Heya folks,
>
> Leo and I have been talking about our forum and how it is by far not
> as nice as it could be as the software is really meh. Using it is a
> pita.
> So we have been thinking about solutions and one that came to our mind
> immediately is move it all to forum.kde.org (fko). And now I'd like to
> hear some opinions from you, especially Myriam who seems to be the
> most active of us all in our forum currently.
>
> Some things to consider:
> - our forum is not well maintained from a sysadmin pov
> - fko has a very active userbase and maintainer team
> - the fko team would help us (or even do it all for us) migrate all
> our content if we wish to do so - the old stuff could be read-only
> there if we wish (imho we should just keep a read-only version or get
> rid of ours altogether)
> - fko looks nice and is easy to use
> - users wouldn't need two accounts
> - we could still have insanity post updates in #amarok
> - fko uses phpbb and they work together closely with the dev team of
> phpbb (I know one of their lead devs and got them in contact with each
> other)
> - phpbb is vastly superior to our current solution
> - openid support
> - we would still be the main moderators
> - fko has a lot of users
>
> All in all I think it would benefit us a lot.
> Opinions please.
>

Sounds like a much better idea to me.

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