Hi everyone. First I would comment that I am a screen reader user and I have to say the forum chosen for the Signalwire community is really one of the best from a screen reader point of view. So well done for that. I have to say email is great for people who just want to quickly glance at the incoming traffic, delete what is of no interest and maybe file or note anything useful. The benefit is you're just working from your in-box dealing with whatever comes in during the day and you don't have to think twice about it. That's why I prefer email to forums where you have to go there to check them out, which means remembering to actually do that. But at least if we're moving to a forum it's good that it is one that works well with a screen reader. Cheers. Clive Lansink Email: Clive@Lansink.Co.NZ Phone: +64 9 520-4242 Mobile: +64 21 663-999 -----Original message----- From: Brian West <brian@freeswitch.com> To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Retiring the FreeSWITCH Mailing list Reply-to: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 19:46:26 -0600 John, We did look at the accessibility of the forum software we choose, it should work with screen readers or other tools that are used for accessibility on your PC, Let me know if you have any issues with it. Thanks, /b On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 4:55 PM John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:

This is very bad for me, I have lots of problems with these forums -- very not accessible and very clumsy.

Often I can't even navigate these things.

I don't think I have proper credentials -- I have a signal wire account somewhere, but don't use it that much.

I have been using this platform for many years and I don't want to use any other platform.

On Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:26:06 -0500, Brian West wrote:

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[1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] [1.1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] FreeSWITCHers,

Most of you already know me, but for anyone that doesn’t - I’m one of the founders of FreeSWITCH, and I’m the primary administrator for the mailing list.

This mailing list has served the community well for almost 15 years now.

As

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the mailing list has grown continuously larger and been stretched to the limits of its capabilities, it has been running into bigger issues. Especially in the last year, we’ve seen numerous issues that prevent people from joining and participating – bounces, unintended unsubscribes, spam filtering, and more.

We didn’t want to shut down the mailing list without having a replacement set up, and a forum was the obvious choice – the community has been requesting a proper forum for years now. In addition to being more easily accessible and searchable, we hope the forum will simply be a better experience for everyone using it compared to the mailing list.

To join the new forum, visit forum.signalwire.community - it uses SSO from your free SignalWire account, which allows us to be more lenient with moderation because we've got an assumed level of trust, and also reduces the overall level of spam in the forums. We've got the forum set so you can view without an account, so check it out with no obligation.

If you’d like to receive updates via email, you can set that up in your user preferences on the forum. You can even reply to forum topics via email, though you’ll need to visit the forum to start a new topic (top level post). Also note the digest/summary emails will stop sending if you don’t log into the site periodically: currently you need to log in every 180 days.

Not interested in the forum, but still looking for community spaces? You’re welcome to join our Community Slack <https://slack.signalwire.community/ , join the subreddit <https://www.reddit.com/r/freeswitch/>, or attend our Office Hours <https://mailchi.mp/freeswitch.org/office-hours>.

If you want to continue using the mailing list until we sunset it, you’re welcome to do so. We’ve disabled new sign ups as of today, and we’ll formally stop supporting it as of March 15, 2023. This should give everyone plenty of time to set up in our other community spaces.

Thanks,

/b

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