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[Akshay Aditya]

Just a message to everyone.
Instead of the usual format of emailing on the group or commenting on the groups. Should we consider doing this on discord?, we would be able to share information more quickly and threads would be easier to follow. Sometimes I’m looking for something and it’s a little hard to find them because of the email format.

Let me know what you all think.

[Thejesh GN]

Actually we prefer email.

- it's not intrusive. Works offline

- easy to back up and archive

- anyone can read without logging in

Over last ten years we have a built a knowledge base in the form of email archive and we want to continue doing that for the next decade. 

So I would say no. 

Regards,
Thej

Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್
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[Devdatta Tengshe]

And not to forget that we had tried having a slack [1], which did not see much traction.

Regards,

Devdatta

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[BNP Analytics]

Agreed.

A slack or discord channel will be good. 

Mainly as they may support better code sharing.

[shaily sparsha]

Agreed for slack.

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Regards,

SHAILY SPARSHA

[Dilawar Singh]

Slack is not an ideal platform for collecting open knowledge or data. In addition to what Thajesh has already mentioned, slack is a vendor lock-in which should be a big NO. Moreover, If I am not wrong, they don't let you browse post 10k messages in the free plan. Personally, I can live without one less account.

Not to mention that there is a non-zero probability they will be around after 5 or 10 years. The same argument applies to any centralized platform. Are there distributed alternatives to emails which has better support of structured knowledge management?

best,

Dilawar Singh, Ph.D.

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[Nikhil VJ]

Are there distributed alternatives to emails which has better support of structured knowledge management?

Discourse forum? https://www.discourse.org/

I've seen some pretty good networking happening on this - ODK Forum (for mobile based survey tools) is one example. It's open source with lot of open integrations and active coding community working on it. I've set a test one up recently without too much trouble on a 4GB hetzner server that costs under rs.1k/mo. You need to map your domain to it and have smtp email working  - I was able to do it with a bigrock.in domain. There would be scaling up challenges of course, but can be handled. (more usage = more capability to ramp up). Search works well.

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[Dilawar Singh]

Credit: xkcd.

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