I was going to ask why not try Discourse, but Guido beat me to it. Good thing I poked the "new mail" button in Gmail before hitting send. :-) I don't know what the timeframe for this sig is supposed to be, or how many options you want to more-or-less thoroughly examine, but it might be worthwhile to move it from one option to the next over the course of a few days|weeks|months. It might highlight a few things: * How hard is it to get started (spool up a new tool or group within a tool)? * How difficult is it for individual users to get up-to-speed with new tools? * What import/export features to the various tools support? I realize the last item isn't as high priority, but with such a short lifespan, it might be worthwhile to see (for example), how hard it is to import the modest MM archives into Discourse. If a decision to try another is made, then what's Discourse's export feature like (and/or the next tool's import feature)? You might also keep overload-sig active as a Gmane-ish mirror of the different options, presuming they support sending messages to email. You could just always use an email-to-<shiny new tool> each time you try another tool. I'm interested in this process partly because when I asked about getting help for the typeshed stub stuff, Guido said, "just use the Github issue tracker." That seemed completely foreign to me, so I have yet to try it, but it seems that is one of the options. I'd like to see if "getting help" mixes well with "discussing really important things" or "settling on a place for beer at PyCon". Someone mentioned they'd never heard of forums like VBulletin before. I'm not advocating them as a possible tool, however these sorts of forums exist all over the internet. Here are a few I follow in my alternate existence as a cyclist: http://www.bikeforums.net/ http://forums.thepaceline.net/ http://www.thechainlink.org/forum There are enough of these beasts that there are even apps to provide a more smartphone-friendly interface: https://tapatalk.com/ Again, I'm not advocating any of them as candidate tools. I suppose it might help to know who Discourse's and Telegram's ancestors are, though. :-) Skip