New aerynOS forum; Discourse

[khaga87]

Hey all,

aerynOS has been using GitHub Discussions as our forum platform for a while now. We have recently been looking at other options as part of a wider consideration for eventually moving away from GitHub. We aren't yet finalised on a full move away from GitHub, however we have been checking forum solutions and have decided to transition to Discourse.

We have a hosted Discourse instance, that has graciously been sponsored by Discourse themselves. The team, along with a number of our contributors have been using the forum over the last few weeks whilst we have been setting it up, to get it configured and ready for wider launch.

We do see some overlap with Zulip given the threaded nature there, however we see that there will be users who prefer a more traditional forum approach when engaging with a community. We have also observed that whilst we have a number of Zulip channels as "Web Public", we can see that they aren't properly indexed by search engines making some content and knowledge harder to find.

The forum can be found at https://aerynos.discourse.group/

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