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Looking forward to feedback and bug reports/suggestions!

@mattab nice, I see all posts + users have been imported! I tested it for a few minutes, here are some notes:

• I get a blank page when using Icedove 40 + uBlock extension
• getting access was simple as you described, using my existing account + reset password
• attachments seems to be missing (http://piwik.techapj.com/t/high-traffic-piwik-servers-database-usage/3614/146)
• internal links point to the current forum (http://piwik.techapj.com/t/announcement-piwik-spanish-support-forum-foro-de-ayuda-piwik-en-espanol/15527)
• private messages didn't make it
• permissions didn't make it (I have some admin rights/moderator in the current forum, didn't see any in the new - which seemed right, I am OK to request/earn them again)

Some nice improvements I liked immediately:

• Badges! May be useful to implement some of the community recognition items that were discussed in Berlin/etc.
• Tagging/reporting SPAM
• Nice formatting available :)

I'd suggest having the ability to file bugs/issues about this Discourse instance within the same, much like Discourse does on theirs: https://meta.discourse.org/c/bug?order=op_likes&status=open

Some sort of invitation to current forum users (by email?) would also seem in order, perhaps not all of them but at least the past few hundred active users (or last registered).

@mattab don't forget to set up Piwik tracking. Maybe we will be able to implement it a little bit better here (to have better data in demo.piwik.org instance) - with event and content tracking.

@quba basic pageview tracking is already setup (currently tracking in a hidden website on demo.piwik.org). It would be very nice, indeed, to track event and content tracking too! adding to checklist

@MagicFab thanks for feedack!

attachments seems to be missing
private messages didn't make it

reported these to discourse

internal links point to the current forum

it will work fine on the production instance because redirects will be setup

permissions didn't make it

some permissions seem to have make it, but we'll start fresh anyway!

Some sort of invitation to current forum users (by email?) would also seem in order, perhaps not all of them

yep it's planned (see migration checklist). i'll just email all of them, because why not? ;-)

Takeshi from Piwik Japan team said they are interested to create a Japanese support forum on forum.piwik.org -> once we have discourse, let's create the forum! :-)

I'd volunteer to help with French / Spanish. Other than a time machine to multiply @mattab 's time, what else can be done to advance this? :)

Progress update: the forums are now hosted on the actual Discourse Cloud and available at: http://piwik.trydiscourse.com/

I will run more tests in coming days and hopefully soon we can kick start the migration 👍

Another potential point for the checklist, while at it: Could HTTPS be enabled on forum.piwik.org? It's the only *.piwik.org domain left without HTTPS.

Could HTTPS be enabled on forum.piwik.org? It's the only *.piwik.org domain left without HTTPS.

it should be possible, this was added to the checklist in issue description

Is it safe to assume the data there is for testing purposes and will be wiped clean at migration time? Perhaps a notice to that effect would be useful until it's done. Can't wait!

yes the data will be wiped out and re-imported fresh in coming 48 hours or so (migration is happening very soon!)

Migration has started

I've switched DNS on forum.piwik.org so it should be updated within 24 hours...

The forum categories were updated: http://piwik.trydiscourse.com/categories

@tsteur check out possibility to embed Discourse comments in JavaScript in static HTML site (could be great for our developer.piwik.org) https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963

We can try it and see how it looks. There's a demo link referenced but discourse seems to be down or not working there anymore.

From https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963:

One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we could embed via Javascript

It would be nice if users could post directly from there similar to https://disqus.com/home/ (users can post there on the embedded iframe)

Forums have been migrated to Discourse and it has been a success! Join the community at: http://forum.piwik.org/