Re: FVWM: Closing down the FvwmForums

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025, Thomas Adam wrote:

> Since FVWM's inception, the primary way of communicating with each other 
> about the project was via its mailing list. In fact, that mailing list 
> is still active today.

I hope the mailing list will remain.

> In the early-to-mid 2000s, fvwm.lair.be (via theBlackDragon) created the 
> FvwmForums, which still exist today, albeit migrated from phpBB to 
> Discourse.
>
> since then the use of the forums have been in decline.

I wonder whether the migration to Discourse has not been a cause for 
decline. I alway felt ill at ease with Discourse-managed forums. In 
general I use them only to ask a specific question which interests me, or 
have a look every week or so. On the contrary I keep phpbb always there in 
a browser tab with the "new posts" area, and check them very frequently.

> Added to which is the overhead of maintenance of the system in terms of
> keeping the forums software updated and the underling OS.

Just for curiosity, were you affected also by AI scrapers ? Almost all 
phpbb forums I frequent have been hit, in some cases with overload errors, 
in other with slowdown. The unaffected one has been protected with Anubis

> What I'd like to do is shut the forums down, and for any other community
> questions or engagement, point people to the Discussions area of Github:

Hmm ... I've never been familiar with Github. I hope the mailing list will 
remain.

On the other hand luckily fvwm is a mature and stable product (so few 
support requests are likely) ... and we have to thank you and the team for 
that.


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