However had, I can also add that RubyCentral had no authority over me or my projects, but still decided to add that pointless 100k download limit or mass purge old devs (https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/09/22/rubygems-mai...).
The way I read that initiative here, though, was that they simply add a forum or subforum for discussions. This may be pointless for those hosted at github or what not, but for some projects it may add an additional option. Not everyone uses github or gitlab for instance.
> all ruby projects should move there
Do they move? The way I understood it was that they referred only to discussions, not hosting. Did I misread that part?
> Even if information isn’t duplicated, this would centralize all information related to open source to this forum which would make it a single point of failure should it go down or disappear.
"Hosted on rubyforum" has a ring to it I guess. I like Ruby but its vibe now feels more magnetic to drama since all the mishaps.
As for the idea itself: it is not a bad idea but sounds way too bureaucratic. It should be automated or automatable, no matter where, be it hosted on codeberg or github. Say I have a project on codeberg; I would like a subforum or something like that, so I'd register this via some commandline gem or so that does that. (Also, https://www.rubyforum.org/ is looking strange to me ... github issue trackers or discussion seem more logical to me). Can that be styled or themed? I mean, having alternatives to github is a nice thing but I can't quite imagine how it looks. They should do some screenshots, overview, demo or something like that.