Anyone can set up their very own Discourse in 30 minutes or less. But how do you get people to go there? I often describe Discourse as a great, interesting dinner party. Or, depending on the community, just a party.
This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: http://blog.discourse.org/2014/08/building-a-discourse-community/
I am using Discourse to move an existing community from a mailing list to a collaboration space that is just a bit more structured, but still free-flow.
A bit more on the Restaurant → Discussion connection, from the UX perspective:
That’s very interesting. Thanks
Hi @blau Yesterday a pilot discourse.wmflabs.org has started as an alternative to the wikimedia-l mailinglist. How far have you come with moving an existing community? What have you learned, what can you share?
Hi @Ad_Huikeshoven, moving an email-only community to D, things that worked and were appreciated:
Things that did not go as expected:
Thanks for your answer. I do recognize the postive points. Regarding surveys, I’ve come across something like polss in D, is that what you meant? I haven’t tried polls yet. You mention “@ group broadcast”. I don’t know what that is in D.
I mean polls, yes. They work, but in the past if I changed the poll itself or the info below it it broke the poll. Don’t know if it has improved, since I don’t use it often.
Second, I mean the ability to tag a whole grout wit the syntax
@groupname (similar to @username)
You can fine tune it creating a group of users, and in the group options decide who can tag the whole group.
I’m looking to create a forum for handling data. I’m curious to understand what metrics you monitor as you build your forum. My guess is items such as new members, active members (how do you decide this?), and # of content items posted.
Regards,
Rajesh
只是刷新一下这个话题。
Discourse 是迄今为止最好的论坛 Web 应用。
哇，太有创意了。
我正在我所有的 Ghost 博客上使用它的集成。
千言万语汇成一句：感谢！
是的，这些数据都以美观的图表形式直接展示在 Discourse 管理后台（/admin）的仪表板上。自本文发布以来，我们已对其进行了重大改版。