Thoughts on having a dedicated forum for postmarketos
Created by: kskarthik
Its good to have a forum dedicated only for pmOS. I did a bit of research & found this fotum software called flarum which is similar to discourse but made with php. UI is quiet good. There is a community supported free hosting offered too https://discuss.flarum.org/d/7585-free-flarum-hosting-on-an-expert-platform-by-freeflarum-com & can be linked to forum.postmarketos.org
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Created by: ollieparanoid
There is a community supported free hosting offered too
That would be easy to set up, but I prefer if we host stuff on our own if it's feasible (and running PHP code like it's done in the wiki already should be pretty feasible).
In my opinion, having dedicated forums at some point could be beneficial. However, right now I think this would not be a good idea:
We already have GitHub issues, IRC/Matrix and a Subreddit. By introducing another platform, it becomes harder to follow the community discussions. Personally speaking, it takes quite some time to follow the discussions we are having in the various places already, which means less to code in my case.
But you probably had another perspective, so I'm wondering what you think about these questions:
- Who would use the forums?
- What kind of content would you expect in such forums?
- What's the advantage over the Subreddit and other platforms we have already?
By * postmarketOS Bot on 2018-02-22T22:36:36
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I personally think a forum isn't really needed besides the issue tracker, you have the chat for quick stuff and the issuetracker for slow stuff. The only thing a forum would be used for then is slow stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the issue queue.
By Martijn Braam on 2018-02-22T22:56:41
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Created by: kskarthik
Well, appimage project has its own discourse forum along with all social media presence. It is active too. Their idea for a forum is mentioned there https://discourse.appimage.org/t/welcome-to-discourse/8
By * postmarketOS Bot on 2018-02-23T06:12:46
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I must agree with @MartijnBraam on this. When people need to reach specific people they can write into matrix/private message or just write an email if that's available. To me it seems that forum is only useful for support that distances people from using developer tools to cooperate. Just my 2 cents.
By Janar on 2018-02-27T21:11:59
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Created by: PureTryOut
In my opinion, a forum for a project like this is only useful for non-technical people; people who have no clue about the actual system other than that they're using it (e.g. most of Android and iOS users). Basically: not useful to us. Honestly, you don't want those people to start complaining to us about the stuff they're having issues with.
By * postmarketOS Bot on 2018-02-28T15:04:57
mentioned in issue #74 (closed)
By Martijn Braam on 2018-08-19T22:06:18