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

[Muse M]

Apple's developer forums need to rewrite in Swift.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Shawn Erickson via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> 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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