<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Much of the features are listed on their <a href="https://www.discourse.org/features" target="_blank">site</a>, but below are some that feel like an improvement to current platforms:</div><ol><li>Topic categorization, which allows filtering of posts based on things such as <i>frameworks</i>, <i>general discussion</i>, <i>code questions</i>.<br>From a user's perspective they aren't posting into a separate channel, just attaching headers to their topic.<br></li><li>Social-based
login - users don't have to sign up to the application and can easily
just use their own gmail, GitHub, or other social accounts.</li><li>Modern
UI. I feel this is a given but there is something to be said when it
comes to first impressions of a platform. Being told that IRC or <a href="http://lispforum.com/" target="_blank">lispforum</a> is where people communicate becomes a hard pass for those that are familiar with Modern Web UIs. With the revamp of <a href="https://common-lisp.net/" target="_blank">https://common-lisp.net/</a> and creation of <a href="https://lisp-lang.org/" target="_blank">https://lisp-lang.org/</a>,
it's at least become apparent that to help grow the Common Lisp
community there is some change that needs to be made on that front.</li><li>Open
Source - and not just that but an ability to gain these items and more
by just talking to the Discourse team and seeing if they would provide a
hosted solution for Common Lisp. There are more details on this free
hosting <a href="https://free.discourse.group/" target="_blank">here</a>. We may be able to reserve <b><a href="https://common-lisp.discourse.group/" target="_blank">https://common-lisp.discourse.group/</a></b>.
Should we need to scale up there are discounts for Open source
projects, as well as a means to perform migrations to a self-hosted
platform.</li></ol><div>I assume when you refer to a plan to reach
"critical mass", you're referring to how we're going to increase
adoption of this forum. We would need to make modifications to the
aforementioned <a href="https://common-lisp.net/" target="_blank">https://common-lisp.net/</a> and <a href="https://lisp-lang.org/" target="_blank">https://lisp-lang.org/</a>
community pages to include this discourse forum as the forum for
general Common Lisp discussion, and advertise its creation in the lang
Google Group/Reddit/IRC.</div><div><br></div><div>I do have concerns on
community splitting, as we'd now have a subreddit, google group (wasn't
aware of this one), and now a Discourse forum. Though with this
requirement being posted in the <a href="https://common-lisp.net/contribute" target="_blank">contributions needed</a> list I'd initially assumed the pros/cons had been evaluated.</div><div><br></div><div>Altogether though, if adoption fails, Discourse will shut down the forum after two-three months of no usage.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 5:48 PM Daniel Herring <<a href="mailto:dherring@tentpost.com">dherring@tentpost.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Chris,<br>
<br>
There have been many community forums over the years. comp.lang.lisp, <br>
irc.freenode (now #lisp on libera.chat), <a href="http://lispforum.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">lispforum.com</a> (locked after <br>
conversations stopped), ...<br>
<br>
Two questions: 1. Why Discourse? 2. How will you achieve "critical <br>
mass"?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
<br>
On Sat, 11 Jun 2022, Chris Moore wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hey folks -<br>
> <br>
> In CL's contribution list one of the open items is for establishing a community forum.<br>
> <br>
> Coming from Elixir, much of the community has fallen under Elixirforum, with Rust, Clojure, and even recently Racket opening their own Discourse forums.<br>
> <br>
> Altogether, I get a lot of use out of it w/ Elixir, and it seems to be a popular solution for establishing a community hub.<br>
> <br>
> They provide free hosted solutions for Open Source projects, which we can infer Racket received based on their URL. I can discuss with the Discourse team what our options are given there is no real Common Lisp open source project. If all else fails I can check out<br>
> self-hosted solutions as $100/month is pretty hefty.<br>
> <br>
> If no one has already begun work on a community forum, I can take this up.<br>
> --<br>
> CHRISTOPHER <a href="mailto:MOOREmoore.christopher515@gmail.com" target="_blank">MOOREmoore.christopher515@gmail.com</a><br>
> <br>
><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">CHRISTOPHER MOORE</font><div><font style="font-size:small" size="2" face="georgia, serif"><a href="mailto:moore.christopher515@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">moore.christopher515@gmail.com</a><br></font><div style="font-size:small"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">501- 842- 5551</font></div></div><div><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>