[swift-evolution] [Swift4] Mailing list vs. Forum

[Shawn Erickson]

I concur on the general weakness of Apple's developer forums as they
currently exist.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:23 AM Jon Shier via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Just wanted to point out that Apple’s forum software is pretty terrible,
> even after two (apparent) rewrites. It’s buggy, navigates differently from
> other forum software, doesn’t render code inline very well, and it doesn’t
> offer the integrations that Discourse does.
>
>
>
> Jon
>
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 7:52 PM, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 4:11 PM, David Owens II via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>
> But does it already surpass the limits?
>
> • There is a bandwidth limit of 100k monthly page views, equivalent to
> our Standard hosting plan.
> • If you exceed our bandwidth limit – which is very unlikely, unless your
> project is enormous – you have two options:
> • We’ll help you move to self-hosting, either on your own server or any
> Docker compatible cloud (a $20/month Digital Ocean droplet should suffice).
> • Upgrade to our Business hosting plan at 50% off.
>
>
> I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s close if not passed 100k monthly views
> already.
>
> The big unknown is also around the mailing list support. Is it super
> robust and work as well for communicating as the mailing currently does? I
> don’t know. I’ve not been involved with large projects on discourse.
>
>
> Apple has a lot of money; I doubt being unable to go with the free option
> would be a big dealbreaker.
>
> It should probably be mentioned, though, that Apple already has a
> developer forum set up, and a server to run it on, and everything. Is there
> any reason they couldn’t just use that?
>
> Charles
>
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