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Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 10:34 pm
by Dominus
The forum is slow and most features are missing because SourceForge doesn't allow them anymore. I toyed with moving the website and forum but that would add another thing to manage and I'm not 100% looking forward to it.

So I'm looking at the github discussions and not really disliking it. See the example at https://github.com/community/community/discussions
Labels, mark helpful answers, file attachments, notifications, better mobile view, polls...etc.
This would also take a burden off my shoulders to maintain and keep the forum up to date.
This forum would then be set to read only. NOT deleted!

What do you think?

Edit: I'm pretty much decided for the github discussions. It would take a lot of burden from me and the more I toyed with it the more unburdened I felt. So I'm pretty much asking whether someone has the ultimate reason not to switch. And no nostalgia isn't it :) (I'm nostalgic, too, though)

Re: Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 3:27 am
by SnappyBones
No objections here.

Re: Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:45 pm
by Knight Captain
Let's give it a shot, with this still open for a transition period.

Can we post images inline there?

Re: Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:53 pm
by Dominus
Yes, posting images inline works great on github. You can just drag'n'drop them in your text entry field.

I'll give it another day or so and will then lock this forum, which can be quickly be undone if we find github discussions terrible. Leaving both open will likely not be the right incentive :)
In the meantime I opened the github discussions at https://github.com/exult/exult/discussions

Re: Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 3:15 pm
by r_h_o_n_a
I haven't been a frequent enough participant yet for it to really matter to me :) In seriousness though, github sounds fine as far as I'm concerned, and I'm happy to roll with whatever y'all decide.