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Flathub Discourse is now read-only

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Bart Piotrowski
Bart Piotrowski
Flathub Janitor

As of today, Flathub Discourse is read-only. Existing threads stay available, but it is no longer possible to start new topics or reply.

We opened the forum back in 2020 as a place for asynchronous communication that isn't GitHub issues or IRC. Realistically, it never took off, becoming another issue tracker to keep an eye on. A forum where people post and wait for an answer that never comes is worse than no forum at all.

Here's where to go instead:

  • Help with packaging and submissions: the Flathub Matrix channel, or the Flatpak channel for questions about Flatpak itself.
  • Problems with an app: the issue tracker of its repository, linked as "Manifest" on the app's Flathub page. Issues with Flathub itself go to flathub/flathub.
  • App requests: Flathub doesn't take them. Ask the app's developers to submit it, or do it yourself.
  • Runtime announcements: runtime projects such as freedesktop-sdk are welcome to post them on this blog.

Thanks to everyone who answered questions there over the years.