GMT Forum Migration to Discourse hosted service

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We are currently migrating Generic Mapping Tools web services from the University of Hawaii to infrastructure managed by the EarthScope Consortium.

As part of this effort, a prototype of this forum is now available as a Discourse-hosted site at ‘earthscope.discourse.group’

We invite you to explore the prototype and share your feedback in this thread. Please let us know whether the site performs as expected, or if you encounter anything that does not work as well as the current forum.

Please note that this prototype is intended for testing and evaluation purposes only. At a future point in the migration process, it will be replaced by an updated version of the official GMT Forum. Any messages posted on the prototype will not carry forward beyond this evaluation period.

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The prototype Discourse hosted site has been taken down. We are working to set up a new discourse.group site and will announce it in this category when it is available.

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The prototype Discourse hosted GMT Forum site is now at gmt.discourse.group.

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So far the new Discourse hosted forum prototype is functioning as expected. I am thinking perhaps we can plan to move the service next week. During the process we would need to stop the posting of new messages to the forum, do a final backup of the service, transfer the service backup to the discourse.group site and have the discourse team restore the backup. I think that might take something like 2 or 3 hours that the site would be down.
Might Wednesday be a reasonable target date for the transition?