From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: The IPFire Project <ipfire-announce@lists.ipfire.org> To: ipfire-announce@lists.ipfire.org Subject: The new IPFire Community Portal Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:21:46 +0000 Message-ID: <mailman.60.1572895348.775.ipfire-announce@lists.ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4093074468859074147==" List-Id: <ipfire-announce.lists.ipfire.org> --===============4093074468859074147== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable https://blog.ipfire.org/post/the-new-ipfire-community-portal Finally, the moment is here. We are launching our new Community Portal based = on Discourse! What is New? Together with this new IPFire Community Portal, we are launching IPFire Peopl= e [1] - our new account system which is being integrated here, our bugtracker= Bugzilla [2], Patchwork [3] and many other things more. In order to sign up = for this, you will need to head over to IPFire People and register [4] a new = account. That will allow you to login everywhere - a single sign-on solution. A new categorisation system will organise topics better and hopefully allow u= s to keep conversations around a problem more contained in one place, have ev= eryone join in to contribute their knowledge and therefore create a dynamic s= upport community! To be as inclusive as possible, we will make this portal English only. Having= this debated for a long time, and after phasing out translations on the Wiki= , we have decided that we will reach a maximum number of users and leave nobo= dy excluded. The project has a large group of users in Germany, but we keep growing and IP= Fire is becoming more and more popular all around the world. English is the d= e-facto language in Open Source and allows everyone to take part in our commu= nity. Why Discourse? Our support forums have been run by some outdated, PHP-based software for a l= ong time. Every upgrade was a struggle. They did not look nice or add any fea= tures, but were rather a flashback to the web of the early 2000s. After looking around for a long time for some better software, we discovered = Discourse which is now widely adopted and feels more modern, engaging and is = very simple to use. We hope that our community, which is large, but sometimes= feels very quiet, will develop a different dynamic because of this and I am = looking forward to be in touch with you all more! Since there is no working converter and because of the changes in how the com= munity is working, we are not going to migrate any user accounts or posts. Retiring the old Forum The old forum will remain around for a little while. But since it is not bein= g patched any more, it is becoming a security threat for our whole infrastruc= ture. However, it is a source of vast knowledge around the project. At the same tim= e, it is full of outdated information and many many spam accounts. For that r= eason, it will disappear from the Internet in about a year. The plan is to migrate any information that the community would like to retai= n into the IPFire Wiki [5] where it should be. In order to do that, we will s= witch the forum into read-only mode in a couple of weeks. At that time, we wi= ll also send an invitation to all forum users to create a new account. Any new conversation should be started here, on the new portal. Get Started If you do not have an account already, please register [4] one now, log in to= the new IPFire Community Portal [6] and become a part of our community! [1] https://people.ipfire.org/ [2] https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/ [3] https://patchwork.ipfire.org/ [4] https://people.ipfire.org/register [5] https://wiki.ipfire.org/ [6] https://community.ipfire.org/ --===============4093074468859074147==--