Migrating away from the Ethereum Forums

GeorgeHallam

Hello all!

Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Ethereum's Taylor Gerring ran a community poll titled: [POLL] What should we do with the official forums?

The answer at the time was a resounding "let the forums go, let's move on! There are much better platforms available".

We agree with the community's sentiment, and are now actively looking at closing down the Ethereum Forums.

Any information held on the forum will still be available on http://web.archive.org/

We'll begin a 14 day count down before the off switch is flicked starting.... NOW!

Focus will move to what Reddit community members /u/drcode/ & /u/symeof eloquently put as:

Reddit for general stuff and news.

Gitter for more private/urgent communication.

Stack Exchange for every question: basic, technical & complex.

If you have any questions, let us know

Thanks!

5chdn

For questions regarding Ethereum Stack Exchange, ping me anytime.

o0ragman0o

@GeorgeHallam In spite of all the devs taking flight long ago, there's still actually a very active and viable ethereum community here. I personally don't like Reddit, I think it's visually horrible and nuts to navigate topics. I don't like IM's as they're too schizophrenic to keep up with.

I don't see why you want to trash a perfectly good branded forum???

greenuser

@o0ragman0o Moderation takes time and money, would you want the job of moderating us lot? No easy task. Ask "-ck" and "Kano" on the mining threads @ bitcointalk forum.

Raees

People can move to this forum then http://etherforum.org/

greenuser

@Raees thank you, i am now a member of http://etherforum.org/
Note to all, please migrate.

Ethereum

As a long time member (with undeniably the best username here) I find this very sad.

3esmit

I don't like reddit, but ... I can handle it

FerniGumbell

I will click banners, if you put them, for sustaining this forum. Yup

uth12

@greenuser and @Raees ,

I also invite you to http://ethereumforum.org which has over 700 members now with active moderators, no spam and fresh ETH news everyday.

o0ragman0o

@uth12, who are you? Do you own ethereumforum.org?

uth12

No, I don't own it but I am a mod there with the username expectantdiving.

lverdas

@GeorgeHallam Are you stupid? really? Closing the forum based on a poll done on reddit? (Forum users didnt even know about) Whats the problem of keeping the forum active? Many people gather here, its good to have an official forum.