<tl;dr>: Make discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org read-only by end of August. See and comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010 Hi everyone, In January 2018, an experimental instance of the Q&A platform "Discourse" was set up for developer support at https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org . See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180854 . Since its launch, the usage of this instance has declined: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010#6270883 On average, there are two users who are engaged daily. Other support venues which exist in parallel are much more active, such as IRC, mailing lists, [[mw:Project:Support_desk]], [[meta:Tech]], local technical village pumps, newsletters, Zulip for outreach programs, or other third-party sites such as mwusers.org, StackExchange.com, or Reddit. Discontinuing the least frequented venue (which unfortunately is Discourse though it seems to be a great communication platform) would keep us from further fragmenting our conversations and efforts. Planning, implementing, establishing and running a centralized Wikimedia developer support venue on production infrastructure (puppetization, data backups, uptime, etc) would require significant technical and "social" capacity. If Discourse was to be further evaluated, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155678 and its subtasks list part of the remaining needed work. I propose to make discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org read-only by the end of August 2020. Please comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010 if you have thoughts to share instead of replying to this message. Because keeping conversations in one place. ;) Thanks a lot! andre -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l