One of the main goals of the F# Software Foundation has always been to help bring the F# community together and foster better communication. While the Slack team has been a fantastic mechanism for Members of the Foundation to communicate, it does have quite a few limitations. Members have been requesting an alternative for persistent communication for a long time.
We are happy to announce that we have setup the F# Community Forums for use by everybody in the F# Community.
The F# Community Forums are available now for the entire F# community to discuss issues, make announcements, ask questions, and more. It runs on Discourse, a popular, robust communication platform which is mobile friendly and feature rich (and open source!). Everybody is welcome to sign in and use it.
The Foundation manages two spaces for communication. Each have their focus and advantages:
- Members of the Foundation only (Join today for free to participate!)
- Focused on real-time chat
- Limited history (10000 messages, or about 1 week)
- Available to F# community members
- Focused on longer term discussions
- Unlimited history with good search
- Simple account creation and sign-in
There are already some basic integrations between the two systems setup, and we will continue to look for ways to integrate more fully. Feel free to start discussions in the Site Feedback section if you wish to make suggestions, ask questions, or provide feedback.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us directly.