On Thursday 30 March 2023 04:55:29 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:00:45 -0500 > > Darrell Anderson via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > TDE is just about the only desktop environment that does not have an > > online forum. Reddit and Discourse forums are popular in many Linux > > distro circles. Many have both Reddit and Discourse forums. Reddit often > > has a bad reputation but my experience (many years) is the computer and > > professional forums are well moderated. > > I have no objection to a forum, but I *do* object to both Reddit and > Discourse. > > Reddit is a third-party website over which we have no control. If they > decide to pull the plug, everything goes poof, and they have the ability > to tamper with posts (I'm aware that currently they don't do that, but > the current owners could easily sell out). Plus I'm pretty sure that > setting up an account would require us to give *them* an email, and I don't > trust them not to sell their lists. > > Discourse has a bad habit of chasing the newest and shiniest in browser > tech. Never mind Konqueror, I had recent issues with a Discourse forum > (still not completely resolved) in Pale Moon, which is an > actively-maintained browser. Using older or alternative software isn't > unusual here, so Discourse is inappropriate for the potential audience. > > If we wanted to self-host an instance of phpBB or Simple Machines or > something, that might work, but I don't know what the maintenance > requirements would be. We don't want to dump more extra work on > Slávek. > > E. Liddell Yes, I thought we already had come to a consensus not to put more burdens on the developers; back when we were discussing Twitter versus Mastodon? Just let them concentrate on making TDE even better, and not demand that they maintain multiple accounts on non-free social networks. I don't mind the idea of a forum, or something like that, but there's the problem of where to host it. I say let's keep our stuff free - maybe not quite Richard Stallman level, totally absolutely 100% certified pure and wholesome free, but at least where TDE doesn't get hijacked by who-knows. Some of our folks here run servers. They might have some ideas. Then, too, once we get the donations redirected to Slavek, maybe we can figure out how to get our own. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
