@ozeszty: we’re thinking of pulling the plug on askbot and formally making this instance ask.fp.o before F30 releases in ~4 weeks. Would that be enough time to pull your archive, do you think?
@not-mattdm-at-all: is there a date when our subscription to askbot expires? Would it be possible to keep it in “readonly” mode until the expiry date—we can disable logins, and move the URL to archiveddiscussion.fedoraproject.org (or something)?
Yes, that’s enough, and knowing rough deadline helps
If we could schedule an hour in next week, when you’d set askbot into read-only mode, that would be very helpful. I’d grab some pages and see how much work it’ll save.
No, unfortunately there is no straight forward way of moving anything from askbot to discourse without directly accessing the database, and we’re not doing that at all (we cannot, and if we could we wouldnt due to lack of man power).
Wouldn’t it make sense to give users of askbot a notice that the platform will be shut down by xx/yy? I think it would be good to advise users ahead of time, so they know what to expect.
Maybe a banner type of notification (like when askbot was in read-only for the platform migration)?!
I am new to the Discourse way of things, so please forgive any stupid questions. Here is the first one, will stuff like This is a list of commonly asked questions - Ask Fedora remain read-only? Is there a way to comment on that?
Yes, we will do that, along with a magazine post announcing the move. We’re asking community members to test the new forum out first before we go ahead and invite users to move here.
It’s sort of a sticky post that we’ve locked—the idea being that forum can add info to it. Do you think it’s better to leave it open for comments? We can do that.
We toyed with the idea of making it a “wiki post”, but we need to check how wiki posts work.
We do not mention in anywhere but discourse has a mobile application, you can add as many site as you like there And get notification sorry for forget it
I looked at the reviews for the mobile application, but they werent too good. Most users said that the application was simply a webview embedded in an app, so you can just use your browser on your phone and that’ll work well enough too. Of course, Firefox is recommended