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[Erik Hovland]

> 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

Something that is left off of the list is how it will help you and anyone
else who admin'ed the forums. I only want to consider a move if it will
be helpful for the amarok devs. If it ends up being more work, forget
it. Otherwise, I welcome our new fko overlords!

E

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Erik Hovland
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