{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xibosignage/xibo/issues/332","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xibosignage/xibo/issues/332/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xibosignage/xibo/issues/332/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xibosignage/xibo/issues/332/events","html_url":"https://github.com/xibosignage/xibo/issues/332","id":58912998,"number":332,"title":"Do we need a forum?","user":{"login":"dasgarner","id":10400067,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10400067?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner","html_url":"https://github.com/dasgarner","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dasgarner/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xibosignage/xibo/labels/help%20wanted","name":"help wanted","color":"159818"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2015-02-25T14:56:18Z","updated_at":"2015-02-27T13:33:29Z","closed_at":null,"body":"There have been a number of requests for a forum recently and we would like to weigh up the pros and cons of using a forum system in addition to GitHub Issues.\r\n\r\n### Our pros\r\n - GitHub for Issues and only issues means less clutter\r\n - A forum would present a less technical appearance to end users\r\n - Community members could take a more active roll in the forum with moderation capabilities\r\n\r\n### Our cons\r\n - We have limited resources, monitoring 2 systems instead of 1 will stretch these resources\r\n - Hosting cost implications (GitHub is free, servers to run forums are not)\r\n - When we had a forum before we spent all our time saying please report that over here, or this over there as people put things in the wrong place.\r\n\r\nOpinions and feedback are welcome!"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xibosignage/xibo/issues/comments/76394660","html_url":"https://github.com/xibosignage/xibo/issues/332#issuecomment-76394660","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xibosignage/xibo/issues/332","id":76394660,"user":{"login":"MedusaDelft","id":10947534,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10947534?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft","html_url":"https://github.com/MedusaDelft","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MedusaDelft/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-27T13:33:29Z","updated_at":"2015-02-27T13:33:29Z","body":"Please keep the documentation, \"stickies\" or FAQ's in one place and not at a couple different places. It's difficult enough to see answers and more in-dept explanations here in open/closes issues and having a look at the documentation in another place.\r\nAlso PLEASE feel free to enrich the current documentation with your FAQ's or \"stickies\"!!  (I should do so myself!).\r\n\r\nI don't know what the plans are for milestone 1.8 (except 'interactive signage' and cross-browser player --> very useful, looking at Raspberry PI currently for a customer), but animating xibo-content more easily should be also a next big thing, because support is rather poor to be honest while other siginage-solutions do have animation possibilities (fade between layers, slide in content, images on show (can only be done now by writing own css-stuff as regions overlap).\r\n\r\nThe reason I mention this is that if animation will be next, a lot more questions will be asked. Maybe even 'interactive signage' will give a lot of questions as this means 'programming' responses.\r\nSo besides that the solution chosen has to be usefull at this moment, it should also be future proof preferably. I'm sure Dan knows that."}}