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The forums have always been user ran projects. Chris setup the kicad.info forum about 5 years ago. I personally doubt Chris will go rogue, he has been preaching

The forums have always been user ran projects. Chris setup the kicad.info forum about 5 years ago. I personally doubt Chris will go rogue, he has been preaching kicad for far too long, I would say he has well and truely "drank the kool-aid" (Not the correct term, but was the first term that came to mind, what I mean is that he is extremely passionate about the project so I don't see him doing it any harm.), but I see your point that the forums could be another point of failure as they are user ran. The annoucment is also on the kicad.org domain. https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/10/Avoid-links-to-former-kicad-domain/ https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/10/Avoid-links-to-former-kic...

ChrisGammell 5y ago
Delicious, delicious kool-aid
Ciantic 5y ago
I found this amusing myself too. Though, if they have any working relationship, why not point subdomain like forum.kicad.org to Chris's forum? It's cheap and easy, and noticeable who controls it.
- Crosseye_Jack 5y ago
  Because its not the only forum nr is it the official forum. Dave at eevblog also runs one https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/ (Chris and Dave both host The Amp Hour podcast), There is the Subreddit, there are also Chinese and Spanish forums on differnt domains too. The kicad site also states that in order to have your forum listed on the kicad site "You do not misrepresent yourself as being an official KiCad entity". Having a subdomain for it could imply its "official" and break its own rule. https://www.kicad.org/community/forums/ https://www.kicad.org/community/forums/
  - 1_player 5y ago
    That's just asking for this to happen again. What stops the forum administrator from selling kicad.info or adding their own affiliate code to links?
    - rjmunro 5y ago
      The forum isn't the official place to download the product or even get documentation about it, so it's much less of a risk.
    - Crosseye_Jack 5y ago
      Nothing really, but kicad don't run or maintain the user forums. They are a knowledgebase but they are not the offical knowledgebase.
    - delfinom 5y ago
      Nothing. It would be highly discriminatory to declare any one forum as the official one. The user bases across various languages are huge (in fact English is not the majority), electrical engineers are also highly tribal and have their own various communities that are very large. Trying to centralize them into one english forum is downright disingenuous.
- ChrisGammell 5y ago
  I started the forum because at the time one of the only sources of user support was a Yahoo message board. It was not a nice place. There was also an IRC (still active), but that format have any searchable history. Things have gotten way better since then. I have not heard any desire to have a centrally maintained forum, but will help however I can.

ChrisGammell 5y ago

Delicious, delicious kool-aid

Ciantic 5y ago

I found this amusing myself too. Though, if they have any working relationship, why not point subdomain like forum.kicad.org to Chris's forum? It's cheap and easy, and noticeable who controls it.

Crosseye_Jack 5y ago
Because its not the only forum nr is it the official forum. Dave at eevblog also runs one https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/ (Chris and Dave both host The Amp Hour podcast), There is the Subreddit, there are also Chinese and Spanish forums on differnt domains too. The kicad site also states that in order to have your forum listed on the kicad site "You do not misrepresent yourself as being an official KiCad entity". Having a subdomain for it could imply its "official" and break its own rule. https://www.kicad.org/community/forums/ https://www.kicad.org/community/forums/
- 1_player 5y ago
  That's just asking for this to happen again. What stops the forum administrator from selling kicad.info or adding their own affiliate code to links?
  - rjmunro 5y ago
    The forum isn't the official place to download the product or even get documentation about it, so it's much less of a risk.
  - Crosseye_Jack 5y ago
    Nothing really, but kicad don't run or maintain the user forums. They are a knowledgebase but they are not the offical knowledgebase.
  - delfinom 5y ago
    Nothing. It would be highly discriminatory to declare any one forum as the official one. The user bases across various languages are huge (in fact English is not the majority), electrical engineers are also highly tribal and have their own various communities that are very large. Trying to centralize them into one english forum is downright disingenuous.
ChrisGammell 5y ago
I started the forum because at the time one of the only sources of user support was a Yahoo message board. It was not a nice place. There was also an IRC (still active), but that format have any searchable history. Things have gotten way better since then. I have not heard any desire to have a centrally maintained forum, but will help however I can.