Question A Question for the Kunena Community!

fxstein wrote: I guess we need to think about plans on how to switch the domain to .org. a 2/3 majority in votes is a clear indication that this is the preferred setup.

Then that means also huge work (links) in other sites which follow you or/and are done link for your sites(can you keep redirections from old url's?)... but if that have to do... so we all have to follow you, I hope this not happen every year in the future.

Mortti wrote:

fxstein wrote: I guess we need to think about plans on how to switch the domain to .org. a 2/3 majority in votes is a clear indication that this is the preferred setup.

Then that means also huge work (links) in other sites which follow you or/and are done link for your sites... but if that have to do... so we all have to follow you, I hope this not happen every year in future.

No - no changes for anybody else.

Even today all kunena.com links work also as .org - we just flip the default.

All kunena.com links in the world will continue to work.

Thanks for your response, I had time to panic already :laugh:

The community vote seems pretty clear. About 2/3 are for .org

We are in the process of planning the change.

Just to reiterate: all existing .com URLs will continue to work.

Thanks a lot for your input!

fxstein wrote: Kunena is different. Kunena is not a product of yet another company trying to sell something to the Joomla community. Kunena is its own community of users, helpers, moderators, testers, developers and designers. It's the place we have created to help you come together and build a better forum/communication component for Joomla.
It’s a community within the much larger Joomla community. We are tightly connected with Joomla, are grateful to have various Joomla leadership members join in and help us over the short history of Kunena since its official launch in January 2009.

Recent news from other quarters within this niche market (no names, no pack drill) probably add further impetus to changing from a dot-com structure to a dot-org.

Although a simple name change from Kunena.com to Kunena.org may not appear terribly significant, I think it adds a distinctive layer to the derivative nature of what the Kunena product is about. Moreover, changing to a dot-org gives a reassurance to the community that Kunena will remain free - free to develop as the community wishes, freely-distributed in the open source world and (perhaps above all) free of charge for users to acquire, use, and get help when they need it.

This is not to say that there isn't a reason for a Kunena.com to cease to exist, either. There are avenues for the Kunena product to be improved by sponsored development of the product or paid-for work and these activities might not particularly suit the dot-org structure. But, as far as the bulk of the development work goes, the Kunena community, as a whole, profits from the results of this paid work.

Obviously, these are only my personal opinions.

FYI Coinciding with the Kunena 1.6.1 release we will be switching our domain name to kunena.org

This will create some DNS issues around the world, as it takes hours for the changes to propagate.

We apologize for any issues this might be causing.