Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

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Dominus
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Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Post 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)
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SnappyBones
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Re: Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Post by SnappyBones »

No objections here.
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Re: Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Post by Knight Captain »

Let's give it a shot, with this still open for a transition period.

Can we post images inline there?
Dominus
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Re: Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Post 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
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Re: Closing this board in favor of github discussions?

Post 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.
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