[HLUG] New forum

[david winterton]

Enjoy your camping, the front page is mobile phone friendly, I will write
up my upgrade to my system when I am finally forced to remove my computer
from the side of the TV
David

On Sat, 2 Jun 2018, 18:57 Julian Robbins via Herefordshire, <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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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