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I setup Discourse for a couple of days and absolutely hated everything about it. - It actually ok to setup, following instructions. - The UI is awful. - Chan
by jbrooksuk 11y ago
I setup Discourse for a couple of days and absolutely hated everything about it.
- It actually ok to setup, following instructions.
- The UI is awful.
- Changing the sub domain didn't work until I executed some commands.
- The admin panel was awful, just a mess.
- The frontend didn't really guide the user through what they were doing.
- voltagex_ 11y agoPlus it takes 1+GB of RAM to run properly.
- tzumby 11y agoIt just depends what framework/language you are familiar with. Discourse makes sense if you work with Rails (you'll have an easier time both deploying and customizing the UI). If you work with PHP then Flarum would be a better choice.
- sanderjd 11y agoI think a lot of the issues with deploying and managing Discourse are probably spot-on, but as a user rather than an administrator, it's by far my favorite forum UI of the many I've come across through the years. YMMV I suppose.