<div>Hi PSC,<br></div><div><br></div><div>It has already been discussed on developer mailing list: Some action has to be taken concerning QGIS forums.</div><div><br></div><div>The current situation looks like this:</div><div>
- The forum attracts a lot of spam every day. </div><div>- The forum is often down or slow to respond. (Therefor it takes a lot of time to remove spam and ban spammers.)</div><div>- Developers don't frequent the forums so we have to forward people to the mailing list anyway. </div>
<div><br></div><div>My suggested alternative would be to redirect developer questions to the mailing list and user questions to <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.org">gis.stackexchange.org</a>. This would reduce web infrastructure complexity for us while at the same time increase our visibility on the platform-independent stackexchange site.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since we are on our way to the next big release, updating our web infrastructure and other aspects of the QGIS project, I feel it's necessary to address this topic. </div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anita</div>