Future of Ubuntu Discourse?

[Neal McBurnett]

Thank you Seth.  I agree!

I also remember finding Discourse to be much better than forums, reddit or other discussion options, so I'm glad to hear of the UOS session proposal.  I tried to find it with no luck:

  http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1605/

Can you fill us in a bit more on that?

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 09:27:42PM -0800, Seth Johnson wrote:
> First off I really have no idea how mailing lists work, so I apologise if this isn't the best way to reply to this, but since I
> wasn't subscribed to the list when the original conversation happened I'm not sure how else to do it.  
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> I've posted a bit of a writeup on why I will miss ubuntu discourse if it goes away  (and why I think it is a better discussion
> platform than reddit) on the discourse thread about its future here: http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/
> future-of-this-ubuntu-discourse-instance-shutdown/2338/4  
> 
> a brief summary:  
> I don't like reddit because of its harassment/safety issues and poor UI/thread management. Discourse has none of these issues as
> well as many more useful features. However If people want to use reddit for discussions and announcements than that is what people
> are going to use. Probably even if discourse is fixed up. But I think, if given some proper care (the design is a mess e.g.) and a
> little more advertisement (currently afaik it is only linked in the top bar) it has real potential to become an awesome discussion
> platform, even better than reddit.
> 
> From what I've heard Marco created a UOS session for Ubuntu discourse, so maybe its final fate will be discussed there, I don't
> know. But I will definitely be sad to see it go if indeed that is its fate.
> 
> 
> Seth
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