Hello, why not a Discourse forum? i use Racket discourse daily and it is great.This is really more easy to answer than via email interface,particularly when inserting image,screenshot,etc... but i do not know if the free version would be enough for the number of users we have and the daily bandwidth. What i really dislike is chat or discord, i find that "unstructured" , you can not have multiple threads like in discourse. Yes, really Discourse is great.
Regards, Damien On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM Zelphir Kaltstahl < zelphirkaltst...@posteo.de> wrote: > On 8/21/25 15:53, Olivier Dion wrote: > > Hello fellow Guilers, > > > > Would there be interest for having a Guile forum for the community? A > > place to share ideas, projects, recipes and ask questions. > > > > Currently, the Guile community has the IRC channel and a user mailing > > list. The IRC channel is volatile and logged but search engines do not > > seem to be indexing the logs. The mailing list on the other hand is > > archived online and is indeed indexed, but it is not trivial to search > > in it, even for people used to it. We also have some sparse blog posts > > there and there. > > > > I think it would be great to have a forum as a persistent and easily > > searchable means of communication. I also believe it would be a way to > > bound together different communities, e.g. Guix, Hoot, lilypond > > > > Of course, I expect no less than the entire web-site to be written in > > Guile with Hoot + a Emacs package to browse it. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Regards, > > old > > Hello Olivier, > > I agree, that it would be cool to have a forum. (Just please not another > dysfunctional discourse forum ...) > > I have thought about starting to develop a forum several times, and of > course in > my favorite language GNU Guile. So far the state of database connectors > and > tooling around that, and the sheer amount of work needed to make an OKish > forum, > including things like login and possibly OAuth2 or stuff like that, has > kept me > from even starting. In theory it sounds doable, but in reality I think it > is a > lot of work. Probably some useful libraries in the area of web development > would > fall out of this, if attempted. > > Haven't developed any Emacs package or anything with Hoot yet. > > Perhaps someone more productive than me, and with the required energy can > get a > forum implementation started. Or perhaps it could be done iteratively, by > planning ahead what libraries are needed and those being separate > projects, that > aim for making them nice to work with in conjunction. (Wait, that might be > called a web framework ...) > > I think a traditional PHP (ugh) Bulletin Board forum or something like > that > might also work though. Not eating our own dog food, but at least we would > already get a forum. I have thought about setting up an oldschool kinda > forum > many times for friends and myself, but never did it, because of being lazy > or > thinking no one would use it. But for a programming language community, it > could > work. A forum though, needs moderators. Maybe less so than many other > communities, but still. > > Best regards, > Zelphir > > -- > repositories: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl > > >
