Le samedi 25 février 2023 à 16:56 +0330, Omid Mo'menzadeh a écrit :
Hi all,
Speaking up as one of the silent majority on this topic, now that it's
mentioned, as I think I have two cents to add.
I personally wouldn't be against Discourse, as I find its email
interface good enough, however, there's something that does worry me
about such a migration. As I have pointed out on the list before,
lilypond.org <http://lilypond.org> is hosted on a platform that denies
access from a few countries (including Iran, where I live), in
addition to a lot of IP ranges we use to circumvent censorship (we get
a 403 error.).
If the Discourse forum uses the same servers, that would be a huge
problem for us. These days I build the LilyPond documentation myself,
and download it from Gitlab, which at least doesn't block my server's
IP, but being denied of this mailing list would prove to be hard to
compensate.
Thank you for speaking up. This is indeed very important.
At this point, nobody is volunteering for setting up a Discourse server
(Andrew turned back), so the discussion is entirely theoretical, but if
someone ever does take the time to set that up and push for it, we will
need to remember this constraint on the hosting used.