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I've been unhappy with the support channels available to OctoPrint for a while now. A G+ Community and a mailing list/Google group used to work well when the project was still young and the amount of people looking for help manageable. 

But this approach hasn't worked well in a while now and there are way better solution for community building for a project of this size than a (semi dead) social network and a (somewhat chaotic) mailing list.

Hence I've been meaning to setup a proper community forum for a long long while now, but never really got around to do it. That is, until I got a nice managed instance sponsored by the friendly people at Discourse.

The past months I've spent an hour here and there on finalizing the setup, adding social logins (so you don't have to add yet another username/password combination to your collection but can just use whatever you already have), prepping categories and so on. 

Now it's finally in a shape that should be ready for prime time, and I'd like to hear what you think about it. You can find the new community forum at discourse.octoprint.org. You should be able to login with your Patreon account (which will also earn you a nice badge in the forum), or alternatively using Facebook, Google, Github or Twitter (and if these buttons don't show up for you, your Adblocker might be at fault). Of course you can also create a classic username/password account.

The goal with this forum is to provide a one-stop-shop for all things related to OctoPrint, be it for getting help with stuff, asking about how to implement certain things, discussing third party plugins or showing off your personal OctoPrint/3d printer setup. It will be what people will be referred to for getting questions answered, replacing mailinglist and G+ community completely. I also hope to move the FAQ there as well, to make it better searchable and less of a hassle to maintain. Maybe down the road also feature requests, and if I can get it to work I might also integrate plugins.octoprint.org with it to allow comments on those plugin pages.

What I wonder is - what's missing for now? Any specific categories you think are missing? Ideas, thoughts, feedback?

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