[OSM-talk] our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 20, 2020, 15:25 by talk at openstreetmap.org:

> Personally my preference would be to close help.osm.org and move to a
> proper SO site via the Area 51 process which should be no problem for a
> community of our size.
>
> I imagine that will be unpopular with a subset of our users however.
>
> The alternative if it's going to stay alive is that somebody needs to
> find a way to migrate the data to something like Askbot that is at least
> semi-conscious.
>
Well, if nobody will volunteer to fix it then we will need to select between
stack exchange migration and simply killing the QA site.

And from going through microgrants proposals nobody is willing to 
work on this even with a subsidy.
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