# Proposal: Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-consolidating-ansible-discussion-platforms/6812>\
**Category:** Project Discussions\
**Tags:** community, mindshare, awx\
**Created:** [June 27, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-consolidating-ansible-discussion-platforms/6812 "2024-06-27T13:48:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andersson007](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/andersson007/32/89_2.png) [@Andersson007](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andersson007)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-consolidating-ansible-discussion-platforms/6812/23 "2024-08-15T09:22:16Z")

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> [@felixfontein](#):
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> Also collections can link or not link to Matrix in their communication channels, using docs/docsite/links.yml as they please

@felixfontein the intention is explained in [Proposal: Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms - #21 by Andersson007](http://forum.ansible.com/t/proposal-consolidating-ansible-discussion-platforms/6812/21) and we’ve already updated the communication guide just leaving there general Matrix channels.

There have never supposed to be a ban on individual projects (including collections) maintained by the community to use whatever they want for communication. And there’s no ban on Matrix/whatever in the collection requirements AFAIK and even is not planned to be proposed 🙂 , just a **recommendation** to use Forum + less than more other platforms to reduce fragmentation.

No actions required on stop using anything community collections/projects want.

@gundalow should the proposal description of this topic be updated correspondingly? or maybe i need some corrections in expressing the intentions?

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