On 2 July 2024 08:47:48 BST, "Sébastien Labbé" <sla...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>On Monday, July 1, 2024 at 10:41:35 PM UTC+2 Matthias Koeppe wrote:
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>I share the same skepticism about using GitHub Discussions.
>But Discourse would be a direct replacement for AskBot; it is widely used
>with the same user-facing, not developer-centric, role.
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>I checked Discourse Group yesterday [https://www.discourse.org/features].
>It seems to be a nice tool that many persons may like. I see it as a kind
>of sagemath related social network. I believe that people may use it to
>share stuff that they create, etc, maybe also for asking questions. But, it
>does not seem to be a "question based" website as it is currently the case
>for ask.sagemath.org.
you might look instead at something like
https://discourse.jupyter.org,
which obviously functions mostly as a question collection of forums.
(e.g. cf.
<https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/notebook-with-mathjax-without-internet-connection/23958/4>)
There is no numerical karma points on Jupyter Discourse - but it can be turned
on:
<https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gamification/225916>
I am worried that questions asked there will get
>buried in the noise. Also who will care to answer questions on a daily
>basis? I frankly believe that the Karma on ask.sagemath.org works. On ask,
>if I personnaly want more Karma, which I do, I need to be the first to give
>an answer and it needs to be a good answer, etc. I don't feel this will
>happen on discourse.
we can turn Karma on.
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>To summarize, I think Discourse looks great. I think it could be a nice way
>of developing a new community of SageMath users (in the spirit of
>http://planet.sagemath.org/?). But I don't think it may be a replacement
>for ask.sagemath.org or zulip.sagemath.org. Discourse, zulip and ask are
>three different things that are not meant to replace one another.
Discourse is not meant to be as interactive as zulip, but it definitely can
replace askbot - which is clearly a legacy, a digital debt which has to be
restructured and paid off, otherwise one day it comes crushing down.
Discourse has many things askbot does not have, e.g. posting by email.
And it can be self hosted - if desired.
E.g. we can think of hosting Discourse where we currently host askbot.
Best,
Dima
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>Sincerely,
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>Sébastien Labbé
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