By September 30th 2022 the forum.openstreetmap.org will be retired, please request a category for your community in the new ones as soon as possible using this process, which will allow you to propose your community moderators.
We expect the migration of data will be finished by that date, you can follow its progress here.
This announcement will be also shared in various other OSM channels for visibility, including the old forums. Please help spread the word in the channels you have presence and among your communities.
Quick question. If a community doesnât file the request for the creation of a category of a local chapter, what would happen? Letâs say the Italian community doesnât ask for an Italian category, what would happen the existing discussions on forum.openstreetmap.org?
Thatâs why Iâm asking: I have no idea. I think that those discussions should be preserved, but if thereâs no target category they might be lost in the migration. The Italian community will likely request a category before September 30th, anyway.
@Firefishy is making sure no data is lost, thatâs a top priority.
What to do with migrated categories that communities donât want to use or have been inactive for month/year is something different. Whatâs peopleâs preference here?
Note that the goal is to make sure every category has a set of defined moderators by the community itself to ensure safe and healthy spaces here. Thatâs why communities are asked to request the categories in advance of the migration
Speaking of the Italian community, the forum has been particularly silent because the community still prefers the Mailing List to the forum (there are pros and cons and everyone has their opinion). I think we will have the category anyway, but choosing the categoryâs moderator would take some time (I suppose). Anyway, thank you for the infos. I will start a discussion on the Italian Mailing List.
Note that these forums can be used just like a mailing list. You can âsubscribeâ to a category or tag from the top right and select âWatchingâ. You will receive every new topic and message and you will be able to reply by email (exactly like a mailing list).
Bonus: You can select individual topics to stop these notifications (mute a topic) or just subscribe to an individual one and not having to subscribe to the whole category (which I personally love and itâs not possible using mailing lists).
Yes, I know. But some are part of the old-school internet when most of the communications were via ML and are still reluctant to migrate to a Forum-Style conversation.
I understand, in any case I would invite them to test it out, their experience is going to be the same as a mailing list, everything without leaving their email client.
In fact, I know a few âold-schoolâ people here that only interact with topics and messages via email.
Note that these forums can be used just like a mailing list.
it may be true for the new one, the old one was almost unusable, e.g. quoting doesnât work on iphone and the text was too small. If you close the page or had connection problems on send your draft was lost, etc. These things seem solved on discourse, others are still in the process of being solved (or weâll have to live with them). Thank god the badge madness was stopped.
But still after six months we are still missing a thumbs down button/emoticon, it seems some things are very complicated on the new platformâŠ
âsubscribeâ to a category or tag from the top right and select
âWatchingâ. You will receive every new topic and message and you will
be able to reply by email (exactly like a mailing list).
Have all the mailing list features been turned up? IIRC, it was not possible to create a new thread/topic on discourse via email. Is that possible?
Aside, maybe someone should write up how to use discourse via email.
and select âWatchingâ. You will receive every new topic and message and you will be able to reply by email (exactly like a mailing list).