[HLUG] New forum

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Sean

It's hosted on a small Digital Ocean 'droplet'. About £5 a month great
value. I normally use Linode a another similar vps provider but thought I
would try DO again and found a money off voucher too. It's a 1GB 25GB
droplet but with a ssd.

The actual install is actually using Docker as that is the official
installation method for Discourse. Updates are handled on the web GUI.

I haven't set up any accounts as yet, but set them up for anyone
interested. Email is all working. It's  just a test setup but should be ok
for us to have a good  look.

I'm actually out camping tonight so not near a of at the mo - certainly the
weather for it.

Julian

On Sat, 2 Jun 2018, 6:32 pm sean tohill via Herefordshire, <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

>  hi,
> login is?
> can you provide a run through of what you did and where it is hosted, as i
> imagine the list users would be interested.
> regards
> sean
>
>     On Saturday, 2 June 2018, 16:47:11 GMT+1, Julian Robbins via
> Herefordshire <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  Hi everyone
>
> As part of the Survey recently held I asked if LUG members would be happy
> to try a new communication system for our group. I've noticed that many
> open source communities I'm part of now use discourse.org as their many
> focal point of group communications. Ie
>
> https://discuss.erpnext.com and
> https://forum.restic.net
>
> My reasons are many.
>
> Our existing mailing list does not allow attachments, in line images,
> videos, emojis, nothing apart from text. Nowadays people are used to more
> expansive forms of communication and community ie like Facebook, Twitter
> etc where communications are so much richer.
>
> My plan is that we move to an Open Source ' Discourse' forum which allows
> us to have all this and more. The forum is searchable too where you can
> watch several separate threads at once. This forum also allows the use of
> emails as notifications to new messages in the forum which means that it
> can function in a similar but more featureful way than usual.
>
> There is even new add-ons that allow inline chat on the website and
> notifications to conversations using slack , telegram , Riot etc etc
>
> I've installed a forum for our use which we can have total control over.
> It's installed on a small vps which I'm  happy to pay for if it's a
> success. I still need to go through the config a bit further as yet but
> this won't take too long.
>
> The site is currently at as a temp address
>
> https://discuss.joolsr.life
>
> When everyone has had chance to have a play I will change the URL so it
> will be
>
> Http://discuss.hlug.org.uk
>
> Here's a few notes about the forum. I suggest that you have a quick look at
>
> https://www.discourse.org to find out more what it can do
>
> Escape email silos
>
> Engage in searchable discussions with your most avid customers, superfans,
> and fellow team members – every day. Let everyone discover what you do, how
> you do it, and join in on the conversation.
>
>
> Private conversation areas and whispers are supported too, along with email
> notifications and email replies. We’ve got you covered.
>
>
> I hope this can be a positive contribution to getting the group to be more
> active again. I've spent quite some time putting this together so hope that
> others can make good use of it to help learn and work together using Linux
> and Open Source in the county
>
>
> Julian
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