I think we should require a 3rd party forum to display a disclaimer, that it is not officially supported by / affiliated with the Parse Platform. Everyone is free to start their own forum, but there are some scenarios we want to prevent:
- impersonation by unauthorized use of logo and/or “Parse” trademark in an unofficial 3rd party forum (if we allow that, we may loose IP rights)
- someone posts a security vulnerability on another forum, falsely assuming that the forum is officially supported, and that vulnerability is half-public but unknown to the repo maintainers
- someone mistakes a comment as an official statement from core maintainers because there are people appearing as “admins” on that other forum
I think it would make sense to make a feature comparison between our current Community Forum, Slack and Discord and evaluate a consolidation. We also would have to look into plans, usage limitations and the small print.