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Community Platform #42

Closed dbrgn closed 5 years ago

dbrgn commented 5 years ago

I think it would be good to have some community platform besides our chat for asking questions and sharing progress. Something that is a bit more structured.

Two options come to mind: Reddit and Discourse.

Reddit

+ Already has a big community, so it's easy for people to join a subreddit
+ No hosting required
+ Easy discoverability
- We don't control the data
- Less structured
+ No backups required

Discourse

- Must be self-hosted (but that's easy)
- People have to sign up (although they can use their GitHub login for example)
+ Structured, easily searchable
+ We control the data
- We have to do backups
dbrgn commented 5 years ago

My favorite would probably be Discourse, but I guess it would be best if that wouldn't run on our API server. Which means that we don't currently have a server available, right?

Any ideas? @ubruhin if you'd also prefer Discourse, maybe we could get a 5-8€/month hosting from Hetzner or Netcup using the Patreon funds?

ouabache commented 5 years ago

Do both. Use Reddit for users and Discourse for developers

ubruhin commented 5 years ago

I would strongly prefer Discourse as it's much more structured.

Discourse offers free hosting for open source projects, maybe that would be sufficient for us?

Do both. Use Reddit for users and Discourse for developers

That implies that the only discussion paths are user<->user and developer<->developer. But in reality there are also many discussions between users and developers, so IMHO we should have only one platform for all kinds of discussions.

Btw, with a proper discussion platform I think this RFC repository is no longer needed...

dbrgn commented 5 years ago

Woah, that offer looks great. I think we certainly qualify. And there's no lock-in, we can always move to self-hosted.

Could you apply?

ouabache commented 5 years ago

Kicad uses the split system with a users forum and a separate mailing list for developers. That keeps the developers from having to sort through all the same dumb questions that anyone who doesn't RTFM will ask. LibrePCB is small enough that a single forum will work for at least a couple of years but eventually the developers will need to create a new developers forum.

dbrgn commented 5 years ago

That's no problem, you can create separate subcategories, then developers can read just the developer discussions, not the user questions.

ouabache commented 5 years ago

Sounds good. I'll support it.

John Eaton

ubruhin commented 5 years ago

Could you apply?

Done :-)

ubruhin commented 5 years ago

Discourse is online! https://librepcb.discourse.group/

I think it would make sense to move all issues of this repository to Discourse and archive this repository. Or what do you think?

dbrgn commented 5 years ago

I agree :slightly_smiling_face: I will move my own issues.

dbrgn commented 5 years ago

You should probably start out by defining some categories.

(I signed up btw. My usual username.)

ubruhin commented 5 years ago

There is a GitHub Issues to Discourse migration tool: https://www.discourse.org/github/

dbrgn commented 5 years ago

Oh, that's pretty cool :slightly_smiling_face:

ubruhin commented 5 years ago

This issue was moved to https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/community-platform/16