<div dir="ltr"><div>I never used discourse, but if StackOverflow or <a href="http://bbs.archlinux.org">bbs.archlinux.org</a> are able to reach high quality content on a forum, if think we can as well.<br><br></div>Best,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Mathieu Westphal<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Cory Quammen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com" target="_blank">cory.quammen@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Matthew Brett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew.brett@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthew.brett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<span class="m_8864368568904145616m_-4217844514355616410gmail-"><br>
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Cory Quammen <<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com" target="_blank">cory.quammen@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I have collected some data on the impact of moving to Discourse for both the ITK and Slicer communities. Using average monthly posts as a proxy for community engagement, the data suggests the move has been very positive for increasing engagement:<br>
><br>
> For ITK, monthly messages to the itk-users and itk-developers [1] list averaged 148 while on Discourse the average has been 297.<br>
><br>
> For Slicer, monthly messages to the slicer-users and slicer-developers list averaged 274 while on Discourse the average has been 639.<br>
><br>
> It looks like activity has doubled or more for both projects, a positive sign for both communities.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Cory<br>
><br>
> [1] Messages to the ITK community mailing list have been excluded as most are copied to the itk-users or itk-developers list. I have not accounted for double counting where messages are sent to both users and developers lists.<br>
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</span>Those numbers are very surprising to me. Can you say whether you<br>
have seen a near doubling of the amount of people mailing the list /<br>
using the interface? Or are the same people sending more emails /<br>
posts? Are they the same length? I ask, because one of the nice<br>
features of email is that, typically, people put more work into<br>
writing an email than they do a chat in, say, Gitter, and this makes<br>
the content more substantial and less distracting.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></span>I did not analyze the posting activity at that level of detail, but those are interesting questions. I do not have access to the number of users of the mailing lists to compare before and after the transition to Discourse.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">With regard to message length, note that Discourse is a forum, not a group messaging service like Gitter or Slack, so I would anticipate that messages would largely be similar to what people post on the mailing list (for better or worse). I have sampled some discussions on <a href="https://discourse.itk.org/latest" target="_blank">https://discourse.itk.org/l<wbr>atest</a> and <a href="https://discourse.slicer.org/latest" target="_blank">https://discourse.slicer.o<wbr>rg/latest</a> and this seems to be the case - I invite you to take a look to see if you agree with that assessment.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Cory<span class=""><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_8864368568904145616m_-4217844514355616410gmail_signature">Cory Quammen<br>Staff R&D Engineer<br>Kitware, Inc.</div>
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