Re: Discourse

[Al Rushing]

Paid announcement???? 


Al. 

> On Feb 24, 2023, at 4:14 PM, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bernard@mailbox.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> I wouldn't say lots, and neither for sure. I did a major investigation of 
> other free forum programs and it pretty clear that Discourse is superior to 
> all, and importantly it can be self hosted, and others mostly do not have an 
> email list function. Hence why so many organizations are turning to and using 
> Discourse, e.g. python.org, Steinberg, LetsEncrypt, etc. I also ran my lists 
> on GNU Mailman 2 and Mailman 3 and I have to say, even as a technical person, 
> the switch to Discourse took a massive load off my shoulders in terms of 
> maintenance and freedom from bugs and so on. Discourse has a very active and 
> capable developer community and undergoes rapid and continuous development. 
> Discourse also works very well on mobile devices too. There are now over 
> 30,000 online communities using Discourse (reference: https://discourse.org 
> ). [And please nobody confuse it with Discord, a totally different thing.] 
> But this is all by the bye.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
>> On 25/02/2023 6:46 am, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
>> However, there are lots of other free alternatives, for sure. Discourse is 
>> just the best-known at the moment.
>