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It was at this point that I decided to reach out to Matt to offer our services to maintain the infrastructure and management of the community. A few email exchanges and Signal calls later, we collaberate on a plan to move forward, and he agrees to let us take over the backend of the site! From there we proceeded to start the migration process onto our infrastructure. It was at this point that I decided to reach out to Matt to offer our services to maintain the infrastructure and management of the community. A few email exchanges and Signal calls later, we collaberate on a plan to move forward, and he agrees to let us take over the backend of the site! From there we proceeded to start the migration process onto our infrastructure.
The website as it currently stands runs on a proprietary platform called [Xenforo](https://xenforo.com/solutions/). This is a php-based application that is, tbh, quite dated, and its development has stagnated significantly over recent years. Our first goal is to migrate the forum to a fully open-source platform. [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) seems to be the likely candidate for this, however [Flarum](https://flarum.org/) is another possible option. We plan on rolling out this change gradually and with close feedback with the StP community. The website as it currently stands runs on a proprietary platform called [Xenforo](https://xenforo.com/solutions/). This is a php-based application that is, tbh, quite dated, and its development has stagnated significantly over recent years. Our first goal is to migrate the forum to a fully open-source platform. [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) seems to be the likely candidate for this, however [Flarum](https://flarum.org/) is another possible option. We plan on rolling out this change gradually and with close feedback with the StP community. After the platform migration, we are planning on running two additional instances of the server on our other nodes to attain hyperavailability, making the site significantly more responsive and reliable.
We have also chatted with Matt about expanding the StP community onto fediverse platforms such as Mastadon and/or Peertube. These would serve to be companion communities to the StP forum, rather than be a replacement. While these plans are a bit far off at this point, we have also volunteered our services and infrastructure to host any StP Fediverse nodes. Ideally we will work close with the community to flesh out these possibilities in a way that everyone is happy with.
I have also been thinking about possible features we could add to the StP forum to encourage more community engagement. Some ideas I had in mind include an improved event-planning interface to encourage more irl meetups and events, an aggregation feature for member-written how-to guides to make useful info more accessible, a mutual-aid tab so members can send/request resources and funds to each other, and a post-tagging system coupled with an improved search system to make content more accessible. Again, these are all just ideas and not concrete plans. I'm looking forward to collaborating with the community to make the forum better for everyone!
As of today we have migrated the Xenforo application to our Chicago server; so it looks like StP is going to be here to stay for a while. We will post updates on this project within the 'Projects' tab of this site (still under construction as of October 21st, 2023) where we will document the software stack, the platform migration procedure, as well as any future infrastructure changes and feature implementations.
It's been a delight collaborating with Matt on this; he's a very cool person and a seasoned traveller and anarchist, and he even sent me a copy of his book, *An Anarchist's Guide to Travel*, which I am gleefully reading as Brooke and I work on our van project. We can't wait to collaborate more with everyone at StP and help bring some new life into the community!