Hey, thank you! Well I know discord very well so I just went for it because it’s what I am familiar with, but I am fairly open to have more than one community engagement platform, what did you have in mind? I heard a lot of good things about signal within the self-host community, but then again… it did go down with the aws outage with everything else yesterday lol
Comment on jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy
AliasAKA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
MIT license, cool! I’ll check this out. Any chance to migrate from discord to a more open platform for community engagement?
fccview@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Balinares@pawb.social 1 day ago
A ticket tracker and a wiki!
Else all the institutional knowledge about your software that your users are adding too vanishes forever into a black box. And that’d be a dang pity
fccview@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes! I am absolutely working on a wiki! Release notes are very detailed so it’s easy to track progress scrolling through them on GitHub (I do this for work too, so I am fairly organised with that)
I’ll add a wiki to the official site once I’m done building it, there is a help button within the app itself with some knowledge base on key features ♥️
q5VtXnYt@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Have you thought about migrating or mirroring the code from github to codeberg?
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
FYI the github repo can also have a wiki
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
I hear there’s this new thing called PieFed that’s pretty cool…
alto@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Matrix is generally very nice for chat, and Discourse for forums.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Ffs Signal went down with AWS??
Sunny@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
Jup 😢
fccview@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I assume they use AWS for end to end encryption, so not the end of the world, but goes to show how fucked up the internet has become, when a service hosts a third of the web something has gone terribly wrong 😅
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 9 hours ago
Yea, it’s the end of the world with Signal.
Having such a dependcy just exposes yet another way their story doesn’t add up, like dropping SMS support because of engineering costs. Apparently, SMS is so hard to do there are free SMS apps.
I can’t trust them at this point.
And how does E2E require a middleman?
AliasAKA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey some folks responded here which is great! For me, I think wiki and tracker are perfect like someone else mentioned, because a lot of folks without accounts can still access the knowledge created. The hard part is moderating of course. I’m not sure there is a perfect solution.
Ultimately, you’re producing something cool for the community and you get to set the terms for that; if discord is easy and sustainable, I prefer that to you doing anything else that isn’t sustainable to see the project through as long and vibrantly as you can. So in that sense just choose what makes sense.
So in short: do what makes sense for you and if one of the alternatives listed (maybe wiki it seems? That would be cool with me) works then that’s great!
I guess I’ll also plug forgejo or codeberg at this time haha
fccview@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey thank you so very much!
Yeah, you said it best! I take all suggestions on board but ultimately I won’t do anything that is to my detriment, between work and family (with two very very young kids) I have little time to spare haha my precious evenings should go to fun coding and not admin, I do enough of that at work as is lol
Still getting used to the layout here, feel like I am missing a lot of replies, but yeah, wiki seems to be a very manageable solution for now, GitHub wiki is what I’m leaning towards :)
Ohh@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Just curious why you prefer MIT and not something copyleft like gpl @AliasAKA@lemmy.world ?
AliasAKA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Oh I’m fine with copyleft, even preferred. I just see any open source license, even MIT, and am pleased. Perhaps my bar is too low, but at this point anyone posting anything with open source protection to the creation is cool to me.
Ohh@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Ok thanks. “Even MIT” is something i agree on. And the author decides of course. But this means that big corp can ‘steal’ the code. It also means you can build extensions and other stuff that are not MIT. And then it gets muddy.
Anyways didnt mean to make this about license. Sorry.
AliasAKA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I think it’s okay, I made a comment about the license first! It’s good discussion. I certainly like everything being copyleft, but I also get why people who make a contribution (an extension or otherwise) might want to license it differently. Ultimately whoever does the work gets to decide on the license — closed source I’ll never touch, extension or otherwise, but I’m lenient on open source.