For several weeks I have been trying to access the Italian version of the OpenSUSE forum, which responded to the link
http://www.suseitalia.org/forum
but it seems like it no longer exists.
I have used several websites to check the presence and response of the site but they all confirm that it is offline.
I’ve used it for many years, and I have many current threads, and some active ones, that I would hate to miss.
Is there any Italian among you who knows what happened to our forum and if it will ever come back online?
I doubt that is an “Italian version of openSUSE forums”. It is (or was as you seem to have found out) an Italian forum about openSUSE. Which is something that everybody can create when (s)he wants.
The “official” forums are here. They have several language sections (but not an Italian one). And at the bottom are pointers to some known independent forums about openSUSE. But again, no Italian one.
So it seems that the forum you visited earlier, stopped existing.
How to improve on this?
You can e.g. (with some likewise active Italian speaking openSUSE users) start a new website with all that it requires (hiring an internet domain name, having a host, implementing forum software on it, configuring it, deciding about the rules, making it known to the world, etc.). You can then even ask the forums here to mention your new forum in the list Below are External Forums.
You can try to start an Italian section in the forums here. There are some rules and you need more then one person to act as a contact and as moderators. But to pro is of course that the host, the software, the forums rules, etc. are all available.
Thank you very much, hcvv, for the information you shared.
In fact, the Italian forum was well done, and active for many years, but certainly not official, even if it seemed so, or linked in any way to this forum which is actually official.
As you rightly say, the fact that it wasn’t even mentioned here makes it pretty clear.
Even though I would love to start a new instance of an Italian forum, unfortunately I don’t have the skills, finances or time to do it.
I hope others can do it.
The best thing, as you rightly say, would be to create and manage an Italian section in this official forum, I think it’s the best way.
We’ll see.
However, it seems strange to me that from one moment to the next the Italian forum mentioned closed down, having been active and very popular for decades.
But who knows what happened, maybe it was linked to some company that closed, who knows?
Out of curiosity I would like to find someone, perhaps Italian, who knows what happened.
But just out of curiosity.
Meanwhile there is this forum which is certainly the best place to discuss our fantastic OpenSUSE distribution.
Thanks again for the information, I send you warm greetings from Italy.
Eventually i’m available to act as moderator for an italian section in this forum
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I used that suseitalia forum sometimes too, however lately it was deserted or almost deserted, it wasn’t an official openSUSE forum, but it was a platform that grouped together various Linux distribution forums, including Debian, openSUSE etc.
The domain has expired, so it is closed and I don’t think it will reopen.
In Italy there is a very active openSUSE group on Telegram Geekos italia openSUSE.
Good to know.
I didn’t know about this group.
I looked for it now, “Geekos Italia News”, if I’m not mistaken, right?
Or maybe not since there seems to be very little activity.
Can you possibly give me some more information so I can find it?
By chance, in that channel they also talk about technical problems, or not?
Thank you
Registered on 2004-07-21 apparently. Yeah that’s a shame.
Yes, it should be that but there is not only the news section… but inside there are more sections including the support one.
Ah, ok, I don’t understand much about Telegram, so I thought it was just that.
Then I’ll try to figure out how to find the other threads.
Thanks for the information