Let me be (probably) the first one to publicly thank Joost and the FreeSewing team to set up this new forum! I’m quite excited to get this more durable way to interact with the community.
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Yeah, seconded. This should be so much easier to navigate.
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Agree, this looks great, and I like that you can just use your Freesewing account for login. Discourse is a good forum software.
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I think it’ll take some time for me to get used to the change from chats to a forum, but I respect Joost for making the change for the reasons he did!
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Loving having a forum personally. Discord is great for live chats, but for getting/giving help, or discussing a specific topic, I find forum threads just work better.
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I think that’s my problem. The FreeSewing Discord is 95% live chat, 5% help/serious discussion for me 
Sadly, it’s always a trade off. You’d think having both would fix the problems, but then you see a lot of people just gravitate towards the live chat for help, and it doesn’t leave an effective way for others to find it and the related solution. And for more in depth discussions, they too kinda fade into the history.
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Yeah, definitely don’t mean to complain! I think this is a good change to make, and appreciate the effort from Joost. Just voicing my experience 
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Hi everyone! Glad to be here.
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It will take me a little moment to get my head (back) round it I think - it’s been a long time since I’ve been a forum user anywhere! - but I think I like it already. And thanks for having made the push to move everything away from the US, it is a big step to have to make but I really think that not sleeping on it is the best thing to have done. It is so hard to overcome that inertia if it’s not done with focus and a definite reason - the reason was there and the focus is really appreciated.
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Thank you for the forum. For the help and support I much prefer it to more chatty forms of exchange.
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Thanks god for the existence of freesewing and all the works performed by its team. Forum will be useful to show / demonstrate users appreciation. Best
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