Company
Date Published
Author
Ray Paik
Word count
1035
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Cube.js community has grown significantly since October 2020, with over 3,000 members on Slack. However, as the community grows, Slack's limitations become apparent, such as lost conversations and difficulty searching old threads. The community is seeking a platform to preserve some of these discussions and create a collective knowledge base. A community forum was proposed as a solution to address both concerns, with benefits including better organization, creating a knowledge base, asynchronous communication, and content creation support. Discourse was chosen as the best option for the Cube.js community due to its familiarity, ease of use, rich feature set, and open-source nature. The forum will be used for sharing and discussing Cube.js use cases, recipes, etc., while other platforms like GitHub, Slack, and Stack Overflow will continue to serve specific purposes. The introduction of the Discourse forum is expected to help the community scale with everyone's participation.