setup discourse as mailing list and drop google groups

[lislis]

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

As the title says, drop the google group and selfhost a discourse instance on our uberspace.

[til]

👍 yes!!!

It's rails based, it's free, it's hip! And almost anything is better than being locked into google groups, imho (til, who's missing good old mailing lists ...)

[lislis]

thanks for summarizing the advantages @til!
I also hope we don't run into the problems with auth for notification mails and stuff.
I'll see how far I can get with installation tonight (or at some other time).

[PragTob]

Hey, hosting discourse on uberspace is rather... courageous. I think it eats quite some resources and has a lot of dependencies.

I like discourse overall, but honestly haven't used it much. For me email is simple and works - I wouldn't check the discourse often to be honest so I'd rely on the notification emails either way.

I understand wanting to move away from google groups, not sure if discourse is worth the overhead though.

[lislis]

I talked to briefly to Arne today and he said you can use discourse purely as a mailinglist and never have to check the interface. So basically just like google groups, which is why I find it so nice :)

[PragTob]

okay didn't know they had this sort of capability yet... :)

[lislis]

Small update: getting discourse running on Uberspace is actually really kind of a pain.... I'm looking into GNU Mailman now