Re: new forum, what happened? make a plan?

Thanks Tyler for the insightful position on the new forum and the users
of the old.

The Inkscape project itself (as a consensus) doesn't hold any
particular views on the old forum users or any of the community run
forums (there are many others). We have a desire to make sure that
there is an Inkscape forum we can point users to and this has common
cause with some risks to the old forum; we were brought fair evidence
that the infrastructure under inkscapeforum is at a small risk of being
turned off and a medium risk of under-maintenance leading to security
and other issues.

The new forum project isn't a replacement, because we don't intend to
change the DNS for the old forum even when the new one is up and
running. We'd probably only do that in the event the old forum
disappeared. Or if there was a reasonable amount of consensus from the
users of the old forum.

My own bias is that I'm a python programmer and the only long active
admin for the website. I made the new django forum. We get a couple of
things from using this: a. some integration b. CDN for all uploaded
media files c. Existing server infrastructure (search indexing, emails,
etc). What we don't have for a phpbb solution, is anyone to set it up,
anyone to run it and we have limited donated VPS services which this
would take up. I've invited people to lead a phpbb forum project
anyway, no one wanted to. So I spent time doing things that I could do
to help solve the problem.

Let me know if you have any questions about the forum. There may come a
day when users of the old forum need a new home and it'd be good if we
got some of the big stuff fixed at this early stage.

Thanks for you help and context.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Fri, 2019-02-01 at 11:27 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
> Don't brand us as resentful just because we are comfortable staying
> with a working platform. It's not resentment keeping active users at
> the old forum, it's functionality. When the new forum works as well
> or better than the current forum, active users like myself will be
> more open to moving.