[coreboot] chat.coreboot.org is on

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hello Zoran,

I think a forum is too time-consuming to be useful. A forum makes sense
if you have volunteers with too much spare time like the various Linux
distributions.

A forum also means you need moderators to handle takedown requests,
complaints from users and other stuff. If you take a look at most
forums, you will notice that people add their signature (with lots of
smileys and useless info) to each post and the signal/noise ratio gets
really bad after some time.

There is also the danger that all forum contents will be lost if we ever
migrate from one forum software to another or if the server with the
forum crashes/dies. With distributed mailing list archives, that is
really unlikely.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

On 07.01.2017 10:45, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote:
> If you allow me, the (much) better decision will be to organize web
> forum/web domain http://www.coreboot.forum.com. Something lookalike:
> http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org/
>
> There are many advantages why to do this. I'll spell out few. Much
> higher visibility. Much more professional approach.
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de
> <mailto:patrick at georgi-clan.de>> wrote:
>
>     we've set up a mattermost instance on https://chat.coreboot.org/
>     in the hope to lower the barriers to entry into our community.
>
>     It comes with a bridge to IRC, history (but not web-indexable,
>     which was a major concern with IRC logs so far) and the ability to
>     start topic channels that are discoverable yet separate from the
>     main discussion.
>