Step One: Consolidate Forums
One of our goals for 2008 is to bring all the Joyent properties (Joyent, TextDrive, Strongspace and BingoDisk) under one roof to make it easier for you to find information when you need it, fast. We took the first big step recently and merged forum.joyent, forum.textdrive and forum.strongspace into one master forum at discuss.joyent.com.
A key requirement on this project was to make sure we could merge all of your forum user IDs and your post counts (we know how much that means to some of you!), and with some coding foo from our own Basil Crow, the data came together and the merge went smoothly. (/insert deep sigh of relief)
As most of you know, the forum contains an amazing amount of knowledge (how to’s and tips/tricks). Our next step will be extracting that data from the forum and placing it into the Joyent Knowledgebase (Wiki) as now it has a tendency to get ‘buried’.
If anyone out there in Joyent-land would like to volunteer to help us move the information over, please send an email to support [at] joyent [dot] com and we can find a little something-something to reward you for your efforts.