I am proposing to move discussion about Quest, Squiffy and this website over to GitHub Discussions.

There would be a number of benefits to this. For one thing, there are several features which these forums are currently missing. GitHub Discussions would give us Q&A, polls, plus simple things like the ability to paste images into posts. The GitHub app supports Discussions, and means you'll be able to get things like push notifications for replies.

Spam prevention should work better - I know it's frustrating at the moment on these forums, when posts are sometimes rejected for seemingly no reason, while genuine spam sometimes slips through.

It will also bring discussions closer to where the code is for Quest and Squiffy - it's easy to convert things between Discussions and Issues, for example.

Another big benefit - less work for me. I've recently come back to maintaining this website, and it will be a whole bunch of code I don't need to worry about. Why keep some old home-grown forum software up-to-date when a much better solution exists within a service we're using already?

I've set up three GitHub Discussions areas to try out:

• Quest discussions
• Squiffy discussions
• textadventures.co.uk discussions (for discussions about the website itself)

I will keep the current forums working as they are for a while. If we find there's a good reason, we can always abandon the plan to move over, but assuming we get along fine over there then eventually the current forums will become read-only. They will remain as an online archive, so all the existing conversations and knowledge will still be there and available.

Hope this works for everyone but please let me know your thoughts! Either here... or over there.

I like GitHub Discussions.

It's a lot like the forum. Plus, we can attach files to our posts there, and we can use GitHub's permalinks to easily post snippets of code from the repo.

I found the new discussion forum...BUT...is there some docs that tell me how to use it.
eg. what does the up-arrow with number mean? How do I find a RSS feed for them? An probably more questions that I haven't thought about yet.

Documentation for GitHub Discussions.

The up-arrow is an upvote button.

RSS feeds are available:

• https://github.com/orgs/textadventures/discussions.atom
• https://github.com/textadventures/quest/discussions.atom
• https://github.com/textadventures/squiffy/discussions.atom

Hey, wow... And we can do categories, too.

Here is a link for the RSS feed for the "Creating games with Quest" category:
https://github.com/textadventures/quest/discussions/categories/creating-games-with-quest.atom

Thanks Alex. I've set up my RSS feeds as I prefer to get my news that way. I'll read through the docs later.