Lack of fitting communication channel

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Lack of fitting communication channel

emilemahil

If i understand the functions (in particular the "notifications") properly,
there is no way to get a daily/weekly digest of all discussions here,
meaning i need to login here every now and then to stay updated?

i see my behavior not changing, and i would like to integrate this discussions,
within a platform with supports open protocols,
suggestion:

Discourse (via RSS: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-rss-polling )

in the midterm, i would offer to host this.

Also for short-term / live discussions, i would suggest additional telegram-groups, like

Murmurations.Discussions
Murmurations.Offtopic
Murmurations.Tech
for loosely-coupled informal talk

or even a communication space with several groups on matrix.org ( - which is, by the way,
in cooperation with wordpress (https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/welcoming-automattic-to-matrix) to support communication on websites (maybe this gives some inspirations for further communication between coops), but this should be probably a separate topic 🙂

emilemahil

Direct link to Discourse:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse

There is even the possibility to connect discourse forum to a telegram bot,
posting new discussions to a discussion channel:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-telegram-notifications-using-the-discourse-chat-integration-plugin/66603

this feels much more connected to my taste,
since there is yet no space for "short-term" communication,
about specific topics, which go deeper, and have the characteristics of a chat (forum is just not a chat)

doug

Great ideas @emilemahil !

Until now, I get notifications when new threads are made, and when there are replies to threads I follow (following is automatic when you post on a thread.) I think you are right that there are no digests (?) but perhaps these notifications are enough for now?

If you think discourse is so much better that the migration cost (including social!) is worth it, and you're willing to do it, that's cool by me.

In any case, side channels on telegram as you suggest seem like a very good idea 👍️

olisb

I'm not sure we're quite ready for more channels ... yet... or another move to new tools, which means we might lose people in the process... It's pretty easy to post here - and let people know you have done so on Telegram.

Personally I am not that interested in off-topic chat - I find it hard enough to keep up with on topic discussions!

Hosting Discource is quite resource intensive - we did discuss it but chose to use Flarum for the time being as it could be hosted for free and we do not have any income atm - it's very kind of you to offer to host this for us @emilemahil - maybe if everyone agrees this is a good move and you are happy to host and provide support (if anything breaks) for a defined period of time that would make the move worthwhile then we should consider this again... What do others think?

I'm most interested in getting feedback on the v1 concept and ideas about protecting it as a commons so we can push on with the build - as per the V1 roadmap

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