[Meta] FreeGameDev changes NEW: https://freegamedev.net
Posted: 28 Jan 2021, 13:11
EDIT: Go to https://freegamedev.net to find our new & vastly improved forums.
You might have been following this topic: https://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=7780
So my current proposal is to host an instance of Lemmy. With the recent release of version 0.9 it seems sufficiently stable to give it a try, and I have been testing their main lemmy.ml instance for a few weeks now and am quite happy with the functionality.
Lemmy is an ActivityPub (similar to Mastodon) enabled link aggregator / forum akin to commercial websites like Reddit.
My proposal would be to make it available on the main freegamedev.net domain, with this forum.freegamedev.net being still available. But for technical reasons you will have to make a new account on the Lemmy page.
Then the main general communities from this forum would be turned to read-only mode to serve as an archive and equivalent ones would be created on the Lemmy instance.
The hosted projects (in so far as they still have active forums) could decide to keep their forums here, or also switch over to our proposed Lemmy instance. However given the technical state this forum is in, some sort of migration will be necessary sooner or later IMHO. If they decide to switch to their own forums, ideally of course it would be a federated platform like Lemmy, so that we could still federate with them.
Any feedback or objections?
You might have been following this topic: https://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=7780
So my current proposal is to host an instance of Lemmy. With the recent release of version 0.9 it seems sufficiently stable to give it a try, and I have been testing their main lemmy.ml instance for a few weeks now and am quite happy with the functionality.
Lemmy is an ActivityPub (similar to Mastodon) enabled link aggregator / forum akin to commercial websites like Reddit.
My proposal would be to make it available on the main freegamedev.net domain, with this forum.freegamedev.net being still available. But for technical reasons you will have to make a new account on the Lemmy page.
Then the main general communities from this forum would be turned to read-only mode to serve as an archive and equivalent ones would be created on the Lemmy instance.
The hosted projects (in so far as they still have active forums) could decide to keep their forums here, or also switch over to our proposed Lemmy instance. However given the technical state this forum is in, some sort of migration will be necessary sooner or later IMHO. If they decide to switch to their own forums, ideally of course it would be a federated platform like Lemmy, so that we could still federate with them.
Any feedback or objections?