Bio-Formats was a natural choice for testing an initial migration, since a number of questions were already being asked with the bio-formats tag. Since then, the omero tag has started to receive more traffic and, more recently, an omero-figure tag has been created!
With this in mind, we’re planning to shut down this forum in favor of image.sc.
We won’t immediately be turning off https://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/. The general plan is:
- to turn off the creation of new topics by the end of this week
- to set the forums to read-only by the end of the month
- at the same time, we’re looking into migrating the forums content to image.sc
- and at some point in the future, when all URLs redirect to image.sc, we’ll turn off the forums.
However, you are welcome to start using the image.sc forums right now. And as a part of that image.sc community, you should feel comfortable creating whatever tags you feel are appropriate. Plus, the Discourse platform has a number of configuration options that we think will make using it preferable to this forum (not to mention there is also an app for both Android as well as iOS [8]).
If you have any concerns, you can let us know either here or on the related image.sc thread. For the OME team, though, having the forums hosted externally on a more modern and secure platform means we have more time to spend answering your questions. We also hope that using forums.image.sc is both more enjoyable and facilitates chats with the wider imaging community.
All the best,
~Josh
P.S. for anyone who also follows the mailing lists, a similar announcement will be forthcoming there as well with the added benefit of your only needing to follow one service in the future.
