# Forums Are Now Live at http://discuss.elastic.co **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 4, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forums-are-now-live-at-http-discuss-elastic-co/23544 "2015-05-04T16:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![shinyke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shinyke/32/587_2.png) [@shinyke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shinyke)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forums-are-now-live-at-http-discuss-elastic-co/23544/22 "2015-05-28T02:55:03Z")
Can not visit [https://discuss.elastic.co/](https://discuss.elastic.co/) today. The website is loading all the time. 在 2015年5月5日星期二 UTC+8上午12:12:19，leslie.hawthorn写道： > Hello everyone, > > We took in feedback on moving to a Discourse based forum for about a > month, and it sounds like most of the folks who thought it might not be > optimal were people who preferred to interact with mailing lists instead of > forums. > > We're pretty confident the email functionality of Discourse will work well > for our community, so we've gone ahead and rolled out the forums. You can > visit them now and sign up for a user account at [http://discuss.elastic.co](http://discuss.elastic.co). > Registration is one time only and you can do so with any email address or > authorizing via Facebook, GitHub, Google Accounts or Twitter. > > Once you've created your account, you can set up your preferences to > receive email as often or as rarely as you would like. > > For those who'd prefer to interact solely via email, you can start doing > so as soon as you've set these preferences. You can find full documentation > on interacting with the forums solely via email here.[0] > > Some anticipated FAQs: > > 1. Should I ask for help using the forums on this mailing list? > You're welcome to ask for help on this list, on IRC (#elasticsearch, > #logstash or #kibana on Freenode) or within the forum in the Meta Elastic > category. > > 2. Are you going to stop answering questions here? > No, we're going to leave the mailing list active for at least 30 days so > our entire community can kick the tires. Quoting our internal company FAQ > for this very question: > "If our community members find Discourse to be suboptimal, we may make > the choice to use the forums only for certain tasks and preserve the > existing mailing lists." > > However, our goal is to provide a single source of truth for information > on our products, so we're hoping the Discourse based forums really work for > people. Our employees will be answering your questions with a pointer to a > forum thread to encourage people to actually interact with the new > resource, too. > > 1. So let's say that the forums work for people. What's the plan? > We'll set these mailing lists to read-only ~30 days from now (June 1, > 2015). We're still working with the creators of Discourse to do a full > import of our mailing list archives, so once that task is complete the > read-only archives will still be preserved, but you can search through all > that collective knowledge in one place at [http://discuss.elastic.co](http://discuss.elastic.co) > > 2. Is there an FAQ for using the forums? > We feel like the user interface for Discourse is pretty intuitive, but we > have a short Notes on Using This Forum document [1] available to help you > get started. > > 3. Where do I direct praise and pain points for the forums? > Feedback on the forums should be posted to the Meta Elastic category. [2] > You can update it via email using address discuss-meta [at] elastic [dot] > co once you've set up your user account. > > 4. I have another question that you have not answered. What should I do? > Please post a note in the Meta Elastic category, ping in IRC (I'm lh on > Freenode, though anyone with ChanOps/Voice in #elasticsearch, #logstash and > #kibana can help) or post a note in this thread. > > [0] - > [Email-Only Interaction with the Forums](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/email-only-interaction-with-the-forums/106) > [1] - [Notes on Using These Forums](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/notes-on-using-these-forums/118) > [2] - [Meta Elastic - Discuss the Elastic Stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/meta) > > Cheers, > LH > > Leslie Hawthorn > Director of Developer Relations > [http://elastic.co](http://elastic.co) > > Other Places to Find Me: > Freenode: lh > Twitter: @lhawthorn ## -- Please update your bookmarks! We have moved to [https://discuss.elastic.co/](https://discuss.elastic.co/) You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/68287801-937b-4deb-9f63-fc50f6f74774%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/68287801-937b-4deb-9f63-fc50f6f74774%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forums-are-now-live-at-http-discuss-elastic-co/23544)._