Why don't you replace this Q&A page with a friendly and useful discussion platform, like Discourse?

If you need a community forum

It's not about the community forum format vs. the Q&A format per se, but also about who is participating in the discussion. For some reason, you want to separate the project developers to its users. I see it differently. They should mingle and interact in the same space. Heck, signing up here I agree Jolla could use my ideas to better its products, free of charge. :P

there is already talk.maemo.org

What the heck is Maemo? Sure, I can Google it, but why a casual user of an easy-to-use phone operating system should know and care about ancient geeky stuff, let alone go over there from here? Here should the main discussion take place. Maybe we just have a different outlook on this. It's fine.

as nooby user you just should continue stay here. but when you grow you can go to TMO, telegram chat or mailing lists.

@Side it's not clear what you try to say. You advertize a (partly) commercial platform and say the Q&A format is for nerds and geeks only. You claim you want something more friendly and open. Then you say it's not about the Q&A format as such, but dismiss the existing community forum at the same time. You say you want developers to mingle with users in one space. You signed up only hours ago, maybe that is the reason why you don't know that developers do come here to discuss features and bugs.

I would understand a "hey, let's try somthing new" type of post by somebody who's familiar with TJC and some possible flaws. But as you seem to be completely new here and all you did was promoting Discourse, I'm not sure what your agenda is.

My problem with TJC is that it tries to do two main jobs - Q&A and bug reporting - and inevitably ends up as a chat forum as well. It doesn't do bug/issue tracking at all well, and is totally unsuitable for release info.

When I was a noob here I posted a comment similar to this question here: https://together.jolla.com/question/102563/split-communication-announces-requests-bugs-support-devs-phone-tablet/ My opinion hasn't changed much.

Mozilla use Discourse for their Addons Q&A site: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/add-ons I think as software it's excellent. Amazingly, it works well with the Jolla browser. I've also read that it takes a lot of maintenance. But replacing askbot with discourse wouldn't solve TJC's problems.

(@ossi1967 What do you mean by 'partly' commercial? It's free and OS according to wikipedia.)

You'll probably find similar discussions to this other instances of askbot - e.g. this one: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/95681/ask-fedora-is-it-working-and-whats-the-future/

TMO is good. How about a usenet group?

@Side

"What the heck is Maemo"?

Ok, you earned my downvote and henceforth my complete ignoration with that comment alone.

TMO is the community you asked for; take it or leave it.

Thank you. 100 % agree.

IMHO Discourse it is for community. Almost every decent programming language is now there - for good reason. As has been mentioned 'forum' and 'bug/issue tracker' should be splitted. For bug/issue there is Github. Bingo, you don't have to seek long: Discourse and Github... Done!

Any progress on this?

And if something had proven, that it really changed the web in a positive way, it is Stackoverflow and the other Stackexchange sites.

My experience is whenever I find a Stackoverflow or Stackexchange question by Google, first I'm like: wow! I have the exact same question! Then I look closer and see: this question is closed because [insert arbitrary Stackoverflow/Stackexchange rule]. My mileage may vary.

Yep. Rules