Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 7/1/19 9:02 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:48 AM Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
> <mailto:luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Nate Graham ha scritto:
>     > On 6/29/19 4:04 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>     >> Hi Jonathan,
>     >> Thank you for setting this up!
>     >> I've recently had the opportunity to experience Discourse in
>     action in
>     >> another community, and found it to fulfill most of the things we
>     found
>     >> lacking in both of our current forum and mailing list software (which
>     >> makes sense given that they're both age-old and haven't seen much
>     - if
>     >> any - exciting feature development in years).
>     >> So I (personally, not speaking for the board) would really like us to
>     >> test it out and see if we can replace first our forum and
>     hopefully some
>     >> day Mailman with Discourse.
>     >> Thanks,
>     >> Thomas
>     >>
>     >
>     > +1, I'm also quite in favor of this. Having used it in other
>     communities, I
>     > find that it works well as a sort of half-forum-half-mailing-list
>     tool that
>     > can succeed in replacing both.
> 
>     I may have already asked this: do we have a plan to evaluate also
>     hyperkitty
>     (mailman 3 frontend) before completely replacing also the mailing
>     lists? It
>     provides a forum-like interface.
> 
>     -- 
>     Luigi
> 
> 
> I'm using the Mailman 3/hyperkitty for genealogy mail lists at
> Rootsweb.com. I was not in on the setup, which IMO is not done very well
> at Rootsweb, so maybe these comments are unfair.
> 
> So far though, I Do Not Like MM3, or hyperkittly. If there is a way to
> administer lists via the commandline, as we have now with Listadmin,
> I've not found it. Hyperkitty (besides being an extraordinarily bad
> name) is not a good forum replacement at ALL. The search barely works,
> for starters. True, the way our KDE list archives is set up is bad as well. 
> 
> That said, I'm not sold on Discourse. I've tried the one ubuntu has set
> up [1], and have not yet figured out how to get the email interface to
> work correctly. Aha, while clicking around in it I see that they didn't
> enable that feature. I find Discourse hard to move around it. I keep
> having to mess with the URL to get back to Home. So far, old mailman
> lists + IRC/T/Matrix wins. 
> 
> Whether Discourse could replace our KDE forums is an open question.

I haven't really tried Discourse's mailing features yet (apart from
getting digests of new forum messages), all I can say is that the forum
part is far better than our current forum (which isn't even
mobile-friendly at all).
That's why I said "forum first, mailman maybe at some point in the future".