[Oisf-users] OISF-Users Discussion/Forum Platform

[Jason Ish]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Victor Julien <lists at inliniac.net> wrote:
> On 31-03-16 02:45, David Zawdie wrote:
>> Are there any efforts to consider alternative discussion/forum platforms
>> for the OISF-users mailing list?
>>
>> Mailman is certainly a great platform (and works fine for most needs),
>> but I'm finding some limitations when it comes to easily viewing status
>> on discussion threads and the lack of categorization makes it difficult
>> to find relevant posts in the archive (success with using the mailing
>> list becomes a matter of knowing the correct search terms to use).
>>
>> I've found the new Cuckoo Community site (which uses Discourse for forum
>> platform) to be quite easy to navigate, and may help with ensuring
>> visibility across the numerous discussion threads that is seen in this
>> very active mailing list.  If you're not familiar with Cuckoo Community,
>> following is a link to their site that may provide a helpful example of
>> possible gains with using a platform such as Discourse:
>>
>> https://community.cuckoosandbox.org
>>
>> If Discourse seems interesting, following is a link for more info:
>>
>> https://www.discourse.org
>>
>> There are many other platforms for discussion/forums; merely used Cuckoo
>> Community/Discourse as an example (and by no means a suggestion as the
>> only option).
>>
>> Curious what are the thoughts from the OISF-users community and
>> maintainers on considering alternatives to Mailman?
>>
>
> Personally, I'm not a great fan of forums and such, but if there is
> enough interest we can certainly consider things.
>
> I guess the only exception for me is stackexchange. I find it's sites
> like stackoverflow or askubuntu to be very useful, especially in the way
> they often come up in google. It seems to be a proprietary platform
> though. They have a 'staging' area for proposing new sites:
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/categories/8/technology
>
> Some things to consider about such an idea:
> - lots of forums suffer from spam problems
> - self hosting means hosting/admin/management overhead
> - hosted services may go away, so would need good data export options
>
> Other considerations?

I thought this was discussed at some point a long time ago (or maybe
that was some other project). One issue that came up was that it could
split in the community. You need to be all forum, or all mailing list,
at least for the "users" discussion, and mailing list was the
preference at that time.

Jason