Ruby Forum Proposes Shared Space for Open Source Maintainers
Calling all open source maintainers working with Ruby
We are launching a shared space on the Ruby Users Forum to help Rubyists and open source projects connect without maintaining separate discussion areas. Our goal is to reduce fragmentation by creating dedicated tags for projects, allowing users to ask questions and share updates in one place. While we respect decentralized approaches, we believe this central hub will foster more collaboration and prevent important conversations from getting lost in private channels or scattered platforms.
Right now there it's a lot of fragmentation in the ecosystem and we believe the forum can provide a better experience than every project having it's own forum, using GitHub discussions or have a private channel where important discussions get lost.
- cube00
Then it gets too popular, then we need to start charging, then we can't migrate our discussions out, pass.
- tracerbulletx
I'm not a ruby dev, but what makes this forum authoritative? It launched 7 months ago and the admins seem to be some random business owners? The posts have a couple of replies each? Like this feels as newsworthy as if I hosted a forum called myrubyforum.org and announced all ruby projects should move there?
- matheusmoreira
Centralization is bad. When people offer a convenient forum, the price is to bend the knee to their rules instead of one's own. There's also the funding question.