Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019; DelphiPraxis might start English forums and have RSS
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/26
From [WayBack1/WayBack2] Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019. “sunsetting” – clarification: “no fucks were given about current users” Edit: Sticky while the shock facto… – Lars Fosdal – Google+ I learned the very successful German forum site DelphiPraxis might start English forums.
Given the excellent track record of Embarcadero maintaining infrastructure up and running for the long therm, DelphiPraxis just might be the way to go:
- like the Delphi G+ community, DelphiPraxis are independent of Embarcadero
- unlike Embarcadero, DelphiPraxis have managed to keep forums running since 2002 without doing pruning of old messages
Some links:
- The oldest forum post from May 2002 is still on-line: [WayBack] Delphi Dialog minimiert sich nicht – Delphi-PRAXiS
- RSS is at [WayBack] www.delphipraxis.net/external.php?type=RSS2; I am not sure how that works for individual topics/posts yet.
- DelphiPraxis is based on VBulletin – Wikipedia, but might use a different technology stack for English forums: [WayBack] Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019. “sunsetting” – clarification: “n…
- embarcaderomonitoring.wiert.me
Edit:
The English board has three public RSS streams as per [WayBack] RSS feeds for new posts ? – Community Management – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]:
- https://en.delphipraxis.net/discover/all.xml/
- https://en.delphipraxis.net/rssalltopics.xml/
- https://en.delphipraxis.net/rss/1-new-topics.xml
The first has all posts and all comments, so is really noisy.
The second seems to be the best for just new posts.
Via: [WayBack] Have you registered at https://en.delphipraxis.net yet? If you haven’t migrated your daily Delphi browsing to Delphi-PRAXiS yet, you should. The reason… – Lars Fosdal – Google+
–jeroen
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