There is currently a huge discussion taking place in the MODX Slack channel maintained by @markh.
Perhaps it would be better to bring such discussions to the main MODX forum? Questions in Slack often go unanswered, and Slack deletes messages after a period of time (there is no archive for these).
Organising all of this in the MODX forum makes it easier to find and archive, and shows better progress on the current state of MODX (remember questions like ‘Is MODX still alive?’).
Also, presenting MODX to clients gives a better impression.
This would be ideal. Social networks, StackOverflow and the aging of our old forum platform, led significantly to the decline of the use of the forums.
Folks may not be aware of this but the old Discuss version of the forums, which have been converted into a read-only site,is one of the busiest subdomains on all of the modx.com properties.
Slack was good at the time it was introduced because it was fast, open on people’s desktops, was mobile friendly and lots of folks were using it for comminities. Now, thanks to Discourse, we have a very performant forum that can effectively operate in real time.
From the perspective of showing the vitality and energy in the MODX Community, it would be good to focus more energy here.
Also, asking and answering questions is an ideal way to learn the software, share your experience, get to know others and find collaborators.
I don’t know if moving the feature requests and issues from Github Makes sense but that doesn’t mean it might not be bad to cross post to get more people involved in the discussion on a Github Issue or pull request.
I think Slack is good as an MODX news aggregator, but it should be closed to allow the forum to be focused on more effectively and bring the community together — hopefully resulting in more responses to forum topics and better search engine results.
Perhaps @markh could add an automated message to Slack to encourage people to ask questions on the forum (with a brief explanation or a link to this thread)?
