# Discuss Platform Migration
**URL:** https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/discuss-platform-migration/19118
**Category:** Announce
**Created:** [December 12, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/discuss-platform-migration/19118 "2023-12-12T18:14:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@rft](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/rft)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/discuss-platform-migration/19118/1 "2023-12-12T18:14:05Z")
On Friday, December 15th, we will migrating the Discuss platform to a hosted Discourse instance. The migration will start at 7am PST and should last just a few minutes.
Leveraging a hosted instance of Discourse will allow for better scalability and reduced management. As part of this change, the sender of forum email notifications will change to [notifications@dgraph.discoursemail.com](mailto:notifications@dgraph.discoursemail.com).
Please let us know if you notice any issues.
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### Author:  [@rahst12](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/rahst12)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/discuss-platform-migration/19118/2 "2023-12-22T04:02:23Z")
To be honest, I’m not fully sure what this means. Is this Discuss platform shutting down? I also see Dgraph on Slack. Where’s the best place for the Open Source community users of DGraph to be collaborating and sharing information?
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### Author:  [@rft](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/rft)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/discuss-platform-migration/19118/3 "2023-12-22T20:07:42Z")
Just a hosting migration and it was completed last Friday. There are a few different channels currently, though the benefit of Discuss is long-term history and indexing by search engines.
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### Author:  [@honeybadger](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/honeybadger)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2023, 5:47am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/discuss-platform-migration/19118/4 "2023-12-29T05:47:43Z")
You guys should move to slack & use what @mrjn is building (struct) looks more promising!
Managing something like discuss is a mess, moving to a hosted provider for the same is a bigger mess. Plus with some modern toolsets you will probably get more AI driven insights and summaries, which will make it easier to search and operate.
I have always found the dgraph team delivering a great product, but with poor developer experience. If you approached the problem top-down, this would be a great switch to something like struct.