I was just thinking maybe we want to start an IRC channel for using Discourse. Outside of #communityops. I was thinking we could either make a #discourse channel, or we could possibly use #mozillians since that’s pretty quiet. The latter would be done after asking permission of course.
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Why not?
The only reason not to do it is “if you have a question, use discourse!”. But there is at least few cases when it makes sence. For example: “I cannot login” or “I’m sure that $question was asked on discourse but I can’t find a link” or something else. Or if your question is too insignificant.
I think #discourse is great. #mozillians is not too obvious.
So, my concern with moving it out of #communityit is that we’d kill conversation in there (I’m not sure how concerned I am about this).
My reasoning for using Mozillians is that if the channel were going to turn into a place where people stick around and chat, then Mozillians is more appropriate, and this is a tool for Mozillians.
Obviously #discourse is a better first guess, and I think that the work on improving and using Discourse is separate enough from other community ops work that I think it’ll be ok, and I guess I also don’t really anticipate people turning it into a hang out, but I wanted a sanity check on both of those things.
(Moved the post to Using Discourse to maybe get some more perspectives from people who might want to use the channel to ask questions and the like.)
I think #discourse would be the right call.
Reading through scrollback, the last talk of Discourse in #communityit was… okay… it was yesterday with you saying that developer edition is blocking popups… I was hoping for a slightly longer time period to make my point, but I think a lot of conversation in #communityit is already not related to Discourse Team sorta stuff, but more Ops sorta stuff.
I agree that it makes it more discoverable, and I’m not sure that it will necessarily take away from the social side of the #communityit channel, as most people are already in that one, and it doesn’t necessarily have a single point of focus so off-topic topics are more on-topic than they would be in #discourse. (For example, what does arguing about vim vs. emacs vs. nano have to do with Discourse? Not much. What does it have to do with Community Ops? Quite a lot more. [But really, what is there to argue about? nano is obviously the best!])
Couldn’t agree more 
I like the idea of separating the two. Yes, there might be a slight change in the use of #communityit with people discussing in #discourse but again its okay to have this separate so that we don’t bog everyone having to go through ops ideas and all.
Also gives @leo a ‘home’ to be able to work his magic without interfering with the rest of the team and at the same time engage others.
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