![]() I don't expect we will try to indulge everyone. I want it to be fair.īut we will get started this week, I promise! But after some early complaints, I had hoped that discussing features first, would encourage people who seemed to think they had no voice, to be part of the process. As I said in the op, at first I thought the committee would would just choose the most feature rich, or extensible software, and enable various features as the forum and community grows, over time. If we had the luxuries of time and money, we could have any kind of forum we want, but right now it seems to me that we're on a sinking ship with water lapping at our feet whilst we discuss whether or not we need to add cup-holders to the lifeboat. Inkscapeforum could disappear or implode at any time, so let's get the official replacement going as soon as we can, and worry about all the other niceties later. I would be strongly in favour of starting with a well-supported off-the-shelf forum, and keeping things simple. When there's a security update to the core forum software, do we wait until all the add-ons are compatible with the new version? Do we go ahead with the upgrade, and disable the extra functionality? And what do we do when that single-developer add-on that looked so useful stops being developed? Similarly, every add-on or plug-in that you add to a forum imposes a maintenance burden. I'm sure that Martin Owens is a fine programmer, but is there really any sense in him using his time to create yet another forum program? I would sooner choose an off-the-shelf forum with a number of developers behind it, otherwise we could still end up with a site that can't be changed or updated if something were to happen to Martin, or he were to lose interest over time. ![]() To that end, I think it's important that any replacement tries to avoid having a single point of failure of that type, but I'm concerned that trying to indulge everyone's requests might lead to exactly that. ![]() Quote (selected) The problems with Inkscapeforum all boil down to there being a single point of failure, in the sense that MicroUgly is the only person who can administer the site.
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