I think the small number of specific uMeet posts probably won’t annoy the people generally interested in microcontrollers and might even encourage them to come along - so one microcontrollers category would be better.
But I don’t believe that so forcefully that I’m going to argue about it any more!
BTW how do I get a mu character on my phone?
I don’t see what the issue is with it the way it is, we have special interest groups with their own forum, all Microcontroller and electronics stuff just goes in µMeet in groups and events?
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Yes I agree it should all go in one category.
All I’m saying is “why have the Groups distinction in the first place?”
If all special interest subcats go in Discussion, then regular meetup groups can form within them and not cause a reshuffle. We can have a Sewing subcat before we have a Sewing meetup group for example.
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Perhaps its a section within the Discussion category, but i keep looking for A “Your projects” page/sub-page/whatever for people to show there work off. Personally i think a top level category might appeal more, but would fit well under discussion.
Yep, a Projects category would be good.
The original reason for “Discussion” to exist was that it draws a clear line between Discussion and Documentation (the types of behaviour in those two sections are quite different) and to keep the number of top-level categories (TLCs) under control.
If the TLCs are descriptions of types of behaviour, then Projects would qualify as one.
So
Pre-amble for the introduction of Discourse indicated that it would replace Slack, Google Group and Wiki, and do everything under one roof, so to speak. I have been using the wiki for documenting my own researches into suppliers, packages, etc, and projects. The benefits of a wiki for these purposes are manifold and its change log - enabling you to see what a page used to say before it was updated, as well as when and by whom - is quite neat and handy. Therefore, whilst it’s clear that Discourse is useful for organising information that might otherwise have been placed on the wiki, I’m not sure how Discourse would be better for my purposes than the wiki. So is the intention to switch off the wiki at some stage?
All discourse pages have an edit history showing who edited what. click the pencil icon to see it. Reverts are manual C&P for now, but this will improve.
All information from the wiki will be copied over. We will shut it down at some point, but there’s no rush. Only a handful of people have accounts there.
