Clearly define your community’s purpose in a pinned or banner topic.
So, let’s do that. It would help also to identify relevant categories. I would say we have this forum to allow users to
get support: [Support]
share ideas & brainstorm about app improvements: [Features & Development]
discuss project management & related issues (e.g. communication, translation): [Project management] - this can be added later
share anything else podcasting, AntennaPod or Open Source related: [General]
I was thinking to start a topic about the logo, with updates about the process in the first post, and using the rest of the thread to let users share their thoughts. I’d put this in the ‘General’ category. What d’you think?
Yes that’s my plan. I would not delete it but add a big warning that users should go to the forum instead (just in case we need to switch back at some point but I hope that this does not happen).
community: I like the idea of encouraging Podcast-related talks - I can imagine that getting it’s own, dedicated category. For other talks by the user community, there is already the default category Lounge (which requires I believe trust level 3)
I don’t know if you’re aware or not, but a couple of people on GitHub have created some relatively simple scripts to pull data out of Google Groups to be imported into Discourse. I can appreciate if you want a clean start, but can also appreciate the other side of wanting the history and previous work.
I was not aware that this is possible but I also think that importing is not useful in our case. Most of the comments there are solved support requests with pretty short answers. I hope that this forum can become a bit like a knowledge base where you can also search if you have questions. For that, the answers should probably be better than the ones on Google Groups.