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.
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?
Ruby should go back to oldschool, before things such as splitting the community, adding arbitrary 100.000 download limits (past that point you can no longer remove your project from rubygems.org; on github.org there is no such restriction. This madness comes from top-down people thinking they control the ecosystem).
As for the idea itself: it is not a bad idea but sounds way too bureaucratic. It should be automated or automatable, no matter where, be it hosted on codeberg or github. Say I have a project on codeberg; I would like a subforum or something like that, so I'd register this via some commandline gem or so that does that. (Also, https://www.rubyforum.org/ is looking strange to me ... github issue trackers or discussion seem more logical to me). Can that be styled or themed? I mean, having alternatives to github is a nice thing but I can't quite imagine how it looks. They should do some screenshots, overview, demo or something like that.
It's concerning that they're going with Discourse tags instead of categories so project maintainers will never be allowed to moderate their own spaces.
The way sponsors will be allowed to "gain visibility within a growing targeted audience" is also vague. [1]
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 114 ms ] threadAs for the idea itself: it is not a bad idea but sounds way too bureaucratic. It should be automated or automatable, no matter where, be it hosted on codeberg or github. Say I have a project on codeberg; I would like a subforum or something like that, so I'd register this via some commandline gem or so that does that. (Also, https://www.rubyforum.org/ is looking strange to me ... github issue trackers or discussion seem more logical to me). Can that be styled or themed? I mean, having alternatives to github is a nice thing but I can't quite imagine how it looks. They should do some screenshots, overview, demo or something like that.
"Hosted on rubyforum" has a ring to it I guess. I like Ruby but its vibe now feels more magnetic to drama since all the mishaps.
The way sponsors will be allowed to "gain visibility within a growing targeted audience" is also vague. [1]
[1]: https://products.rubyforum.org/sponsors#:~:text=gain%20visib...