[HLUG] New forum

Sun Jun 10 21:54:26 UTC 2018

Well the new Forum is ready at last ;-)

You can find it here https://discuss.joolsr.info

As I said this is a temporary holding name for now, and if successful Kevin
has kindly agreed to move it to the VM that he provides for the website.

I need to work out the best way to allow LUG Members account creation, but
please note that you won't be able to create a login yourself without a
Moderator to approve it first.

Anyone who wants to be a Moderator please step forward too please ...

There's a few topics to get started with in there and a poll too .

It's certainly a big jump forward I think on our existing retro mailing
list. We'll keep the mailing list going for the time being but if the group
Forum is successful I will close the mailing list .

Julian

On 2 June 2018 at 22:13, david winterton via Herefordshire <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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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