Re: Community Forum: Discourse?
Daniel Herring <[email protected]>
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Hi Chris, There have been many community forums over the years. comp.lang.lisp, irc.freenode (now #lisp on libera.chat), lispforum.com (locked after conversations stopped), ... Two questions: 1. Why Discourse? 2. How will you achieve "critical mass"? Thanks, Daniel On Sat, 11 Jun 2022, Chris Moore wrote: > Hey folks - > > In CL's contribution list one of the open items is for establishing a community forum. > > Coming from Elixir, much of the community has fallen under Elixirforum, with Rust, Clojure, and even recently Racket opening their own Discourse forums. > > Altogether, I get a lot of use out of it w/ Elixir, and it seems to be a popular solution for establishing a community hub. > > They provide free hosted solutions for Open Source projects, which we can infer Racket received based on their URL. I can discuss with the Discourse team what our options are given there is no real Common Lisp open source project. If all else fails I can check out > self-hosted solutions as $100/month is pretty hefty. > > If no one has already begun work on a community forum, I can take this up. > -- > CHRISTOPHER [email protected] > >