[SeasonOfDocs] Alternative discussion groups options

[Jo Cook]

Hi Sanket,

Is hosted Discourse free? I can only see a free option if we're prepared to
host it ourselves, which is a no. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, I've
just looked at https://www.discourse.org/pricing.

Jo

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:05 PM Sanket Totewar <sanket at totewar.com> wrote:

> Happy to help if we're setting up a groups.io group for testing purposes. *Let
> me know how I can contribute*.
>
> I found another that might be of interest
>
>    - https://github.com/discourse/discourse
>
> *By the way, has anyone put together a list of 'acceptance criteria' that
> our proposed solution should adhere to?* I thought it would be good to
> list down the Must have, Should have, Could have, and Should not have on a
> Google Doc or a Github page. If such a list doesn't exist, I'm happy to
> create one and share the link so all can contribute.
>
> Cheers,
> Sanket
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:41 AM Erin McKean <emckean at google.com> wrote:
>
>> I am on a very active groups.io email list for alumni of a conference,
>> and I've found it to be a good solution.
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 4:56 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Just catching up after another week away from email. I heartily
>>> recommend it :-)
>>>
>>> I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that GitHub discussions might not do
>>> everything we want, so I've started looking for alternatives and I came
>>> across https://groups.io/. Does anyone have any experience of this
>>> already?
>>>
>>> They offer a freemium service, but afaict their free offering ticks
>>> most, if not all of our boxes- see https://groups.io/static/pricing for
>>> a breakdown of features. The one slight issue might be the storage limit
>>> (1GB for the free account) but there seem to be ways of managing that.
>>>
>>> Is this something you'd like me to pursue further, in terms of setting
>>> us up a group that we can subscribe to and test messaging options/subgroups
>>> etc?
>>>
>>> All the best
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
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