[OSM-talk] New email capable forum for OSM: https://community.openstreetmap.org/

[Simon Poole]

Please.

Two years ago we had a problem, both the forum software and the software 
for the help site was unmaintained and while not an immediate issue, it 
was time to look for, evaluate and then migrate to a replacement.

The first two items have been done and the conclusion, for better or 
worse, was to migrate to discourse as the new platform.

Naturally as with every IT project scope creep immediately happened, 
mainly driven by people that don't think e-mail is modern enough, want 
to have more tools to police other people and so on. Discourse supports 
all of that and -potentially- all of that can be put in place if the 
respective communities feel that is the right thing to do.

ONCE THE MIGRATION FROM THE OLD PLATFORMS HAS BEEN DONE.

With the current trajectory the project is on we are going to end up 
simply with a further system and not solve the initial problem, or 
perhaps better completely fail.

Simon

Am 19.03.2022 um 12:33 schrieb Amanda McCann:
> Hi all,
>
> In case you haven't seen, there's a new OSM(F) hosted web forum using the modern Discourse software. It's integrated with your existing OSM account (ish). You can use (most of it¹) via email, so you can still communicate with OSMers via email.
>
>     https://community.openstreetmap.org/
>
> You need to turn on mailing list mode in the settings.
>
> Feel free to try it. If it's nice enough, maybe we could convert this mailing list to use that software, rather than the current Mailman software. 😮 Imagine that, software updates! 🤣
>
> ¹ AIUI one cannot create new threads via email yet. First the admins need to decide which forums there will be, then you can turn on create via email.
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