Re: discourse forum test

julian.rohrhuber-QYZGCWsIODmAF8UT6DzBU6xOck334EZe@public.gmane.org Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:04:56 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.audio.supercollider.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

We’ve been using discourse for a year now in the university. It is really good for handling forum like things. But it is really slow, it is much more fun to write an email than an entry in discourse.

The mirroring idea is nice.


> On 16.02.2018, at 08:52, scott-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected] wrote:
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> I've been messing around a little with discourse (the open source forum / mailing list backend). Specifically, I've been wondering if it could provide a replacement + upgrade for the mailing lists and nabble workflows as they are now. I'm not really *proposing* a replacement, as much as simply experimenting with that might look like. Feel free to mess around / create an account / etc. Don't post anything important, since I may take this down.
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> The address is:
> http://165.227.5.128/
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> A couple notes and thoughts:
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> - In your user Preferences -> Emails, you can enable mailing list mode to make the entire forum behave like a traditional email list (you can reply to posts by email, and create threads by sending to sc-test-dev-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected] or sc-test-users-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected]).
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> - I think I've got both mailing lists mirroring as categories on the forum. They're non-interactive (you can't reply), but I'm curious how the mirroring turns out.
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> - The functionality around categories, user groups, notification and muting seems very awesome, and could be a big benefit for the kinds of sprawling discussions on sc-users/sc-dev
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> - Code highlighting appears to work fine. I don't think it recognizes sclang specifically, but it does an okay job nonetheless.
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> - Categories for "users" and "developers" (or embedded users, tidal users, etc etc) are more permeable than with two separate mailing lists. Threads can be moved if another category is more appropriate, and searches can easily cover both/all.
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> - You can create wiki-editable posts? Seems interesting?
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