I know that there are differences between the two, but I don’t see why the 2 cannot be combined, or at least shared by the same backend.
e.g.
- each forum becomes a group in faithlife.com
- each topic/post is like an article on faithlife.com
- old links redirects to those in faithlife.com to preserve the permalink, say from someone’s bookmark
- perhaps the original community.logos.com can have links to individual groups to faithlife.com
- subscribing a thread is needed to migrate in a combination of notification settings and perhaps an extra button added in faithlife.com bubbles.
- migration should be done as seamless as possible because there always be some people preferring the old ways (such as subscribing in email, reply from email), those experience needs to be replicated so that people could stick to the old way if they want to
- how to do with existing threads in the old site? read only? Or migrate to faithlife.com (more laborious)?
reasons
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single platform to communicate
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faithlife.com is more inviting than community.logos.com, including the mobile experience (try visiting Logos forum from a mobile and type and reply there, comparing that to the mobile Faithlife app)
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as a promotion to use the faithlife.com as a social network. May be it’s just me but for now faithlife.com is more like the old Google+ where people exists but not really hangs out there. The Logos forum is more like a community of people than faithlife.com to me.
