I’ve been looking around at web forums, since I see a lot of current undergrads and grad students (i.e., users) don’t use e-mail much (much less mailing lists).
There are multiple packages and I’m open to suggestions. One that seems to pop up a lot recently is Discourse (http://www.discourse.org) which looks pretty slick. The feature set is nice, plus multi-language support (http://v1.discourse.org/about/)
The one caveat is that I don’t have anywhere to host it (i.e., it uses Postgres, … Docker). They recommend Digital Ocean, for an extra $10/month…
I know Ubuntu uses Discourse. Any feedback? Advantages or disadvantages?
Thanks,
-Geoff
P.S. One thing that I notice about Discourse is it offers “badges” much like Stack Exchange, which I think would be a nice way to “reward” people answering Avogadro questions.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Geoffrey Hutchison
geoff.hutchison@gmail.com wrote:
I’ve been looking around at web forums, since I see a lot of current undergrads and grad students (i.e., users) don’t use e-mail much (much less mailing lists).
There are multiple packages and I’m open to suggestions. One that seems to pop up a lot recently is Discourse (http://www.discourse.org) which looks pretty slick. The feature set is nice, plus multi-language support (http://v1.discourse.org/about/)
The one caveat is that I don’t have anywhere to host it (i.e., it uses Postgres, … Docker). They recommend Digital Ocean, for an extra $10/month…
I know Ubuntu uses Discourse. Any feedback? Advantages or disadvantages?
I have played with Discourse, and it looks pretty nice but I haven’t
really used it seriously in any sense. I wouldn’t object to giving it
a try, but don’t have anywhere I could host it right now either.
Marcus