Thoughts So Far On Discourse?

[funvill]

Yay, Can of worms.

@seanhagen

what are the costs like so far for Discourse?

$20 per month instance from DigitalOcean (referral code)

The problem isn’t the hard costs is the dev costs. Discourse takes a decent amount of sysadmin to setup and maintain. Ask @TyIsI and @garthomite how much time they put in on the install. If they were being paid we it would probably cost $3k in development hours alone.

After its set up, a hobbiest like myself can handle most of the sysadmin tasks until something breaks then it gets expensive again.

There are 3rd party hosting options, I never looked in to them.

@seanhagen

How much bandwidth is being used,

See stats

Talk stats for Oct 2014

Continuing the discussion from Stats of the old mailing list: I plan to post the stats of the forums once a month. Normally I would post it on the first but I have a lot of spare time on my hands while waiting in an air port for the next 6 hours. I may update this post as I find other interesting stats to add to it. This first image shows how many users are at each level. They can get to trust level 1 by… entering at least 5 topics reading at least 30 posts spend a total of 10 minutes rea…

@seanhagen

What do you guys think so far of Discourse?

Love it, it has quirks but they far outweigh the problems we had with the mailing list.

@seanhagen

I’m going to talk about it a bit at their AGM next week,

Maybe VHS can make a section on our forums for VCL? This would reduce the sysadmin cost and maybe we can get more synergy between our two groups.

I don’t have a problem with it myself but you would probably have to make a new topic and ask that directly.