openHAB now has its own fully fledged discussion forum!
This is from now on the replacement for the different Google groups that we used for openHAB, openHAB 2 and my.openHAB - all discussions can now be done at the same place.
While we will keep the Google groups active for some while, so that existing discussions can be continued there, we would like to encourage you to start any new discussions in the new forum from now on.
We will send out invitations to all registered users of the Google groups - if this invitation does not reach you for some reason, you can also sign up to the forum yourself anytime.
This discussion has been around for a while, not only in this forum, but please have in mind that a lot of different countries and languages meet in this forum ⊠only a few of them are able to read/write in German.
Iâm aware that there is a world outside and most people are not able to read/write german. Currently there is a german forum and i read it regularly and i read the goolge groups and i read this forum. Iâm sure that there are additional french, spanish, and whatever forums out there and i really would appreciate a german area, a french area and so on. Based on this we are able to collect the english community and all the other in one place.
And my benefit is that i need to check only one place and maybe there is only a small step for those with minimal english skill to give it a try.
The problem with this is, that users would prefer the language sections and therefore discussions and information would only be readable by people wo speak the according language - thatâs the advantage of english: almost everybody understands at least a bit english.
I think when the forum grows and openhab gets even more popular (which is likely if you consider the current smart home market development) we can discuss this again; But for now, letâs stay with pure english.
This is an interesting discussion i think, because i see the world a little bit different.
everybody understands at leat a bit englsih - sligthly disagree from my side
users prefer their native language section - yes and no, beginners will prefer their language, because it is easier to start if there are no language borders, but if they get more sophisticated with openhab they will use the english forums more and more
forum and openHAB will get more popular - 100% agree with his. openhab breakes the borders between differnet technologies and i am just waiting for the first beta of OH2
At the end Thomas, Kai and henry will decide this topic and for me the relavnt topic is that i have the possibility to discuss about openhab.
Indeed weâve discussed the language topic quite often (last time on Friday). We again came to the conclusion that the advantages of one âopenHAB maintainedâ forum in english outweighs the disadvantages by far.
For me the most important argument for one forum is, that itâs already quite hard to keep one community running, to share knowledge and find people willing to be active and responsive in the community. Multiplying this efforts over more forums is even hardware. Despite the fact that i donât know about a good operating model for different languages in one forum instance. After all i would assume weâll end with operating one single instance for each country which produces quite a huge overhead âŠ
Just wondering if we should not proceed with a complete âswitch offâ of the googlegroups.com lists, as new topics are started almost every day? Cfr your initial post
valid point ⊠however we should the users some more weeks to finalise there open discussions there. Iâll send a reminder to the group. We should schedule the shutdown (aka switch to readonly) by Sep. 30th âŠ
I really like Discourse, but I just attempted to ask a question and wasnât able to add âmore than one imageâ because Iâm new to the forum. Is there a way to change this setting? IMHO this gets in the way of people trying to describe their Homematic setup. Screenshots are easiest when explaining things, see this post of mine.
The easiest solution is not to be new in the forum, i.e. make sure you did some posts without attachments beforehand.
The setting makes imho sense to prevent spammers from flooding the forum and attachments are expensive.
Anyhow - one suggestion from my side - if possible.
Is there a possibility to add in the top right menue between search and user settings a predefined link that shows the topics a user himself is engaged in?
something like âmy topicsâ or so? Or at least to allow a predefined listing based on bookmarks set by yourself?
On the top right corner go to your avatar, select the little âgear wheel signâ and voila, there you have your bookmarks (left most icon).
And when you click on the gear wheel (âPreferencesâ) you have all your responses, threads, ⊠where you have posted to or where you have sent any responses and so on âŠ
It is my understanding that you need to attain a certain badge before being able to upload files⊠to get it I think it requires some posts without files.