Quote:i would not call stackoverflow a "community". they are very intentionally trying to make sure stackoveflow, stackexchange, or any other related site, is a question-answer site and not a community.
I would have to say that this forum is a much more close knit community than others. But i would still call stackoverflow and AWS a community. Even they themselves (stackoverflow) have in your profile....
Quote:Reputation is how the community thanks you
I am not apart of stackoverflow community specifically because i dont like how they control their rep system in asking questions/answering questions. And i much prefer discussion over categorizing the top comment. I would call those that post/ask there a community. I really hate the down/up vote crap. For example: Just post your opinion so i know why you dont agree, but instead they just click a button. Maybe if i knew why someone else didnt agree i would understand..
Quote:the forums at AWS have not become a community, either. i do not know why, but i have noticed its UI is just not that friendly compared to MyBB.
AWS not having a good UI has nothing to do with the fact of calling itself a community. And just because you dont like them doesnt mean everyone is going jump on your forum because of it. Look how horrible the pygame UI site is.
http://www.pygame.org/hifi.html
Everyone hates it, except for the devs. The only reason i created a second site was because tons of people were asking for documentation and that its hard to find and get to from that site. And
still, not many used my forums, but used reddit...because the community already existed there.
It also really doesnt matter. You can make a forum for whatever you want. If people dont leave their communities, yours is a ghost town. And you have to have something big over the other community to bring in users.
Our big edge over python-forum.org, is that you can no longer post there...you have to post here. And that was done on purpose to give this forum the edge.
Im just saying that to move a community from one site to another, especially if you are competing for users, will just bring down both forums. And it is hard to do in the first place.
Quote:how big is that digital ocean vps?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=digital+ocean+prices
Just do the research.
You can do a forum with Mybb in $5/month. If you have a good user base, they will donate the money for you.
Quote: the plan is to make a forum for boto and botocore (python tools to access the AWS API).
The same exists for Digital Ocean. I use python to make backups of this forum every day
I think people use AWS because they are Amazon fans IMO.