When I was working on https://going-remote.info I did a little investigation. Most pointed me at Discourse - open source, maintained. Reasonable business model. It looks to me like Discourse is what GitHub uses for it's support forums. (Just a FYI that GitHub doesn't think GitHub is always the best for network intermediated discussions). -- https://LarryMasinter.net https://interlisp.org > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of John Levine > Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2021 7:19 PM > To: ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: new directions in mlm traffic: integration > > In article <e2f6e069-3b1e-7f5c-0b1e-955170e6618a@xxxxxxxx> you write: > >Forum software has been around for decades at this point though and > >doesn't have the limitations of being tied to MUA UI. ... > > >If there's any interest, I could write an I-D with it a little bit more > >baked. Apologies if this has already been discussed. > > It sems ike a reasonable thing to look into but I'd think a more productive > way to go would be to see what software already exists that does this kind of > stuff, preferably with credible paid support. We already have too much > custom bespoke stuff for applications that aren't really all that unusual. > > R's, > John
