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Discourse

24 points by ausjke 11y ago

dawnbreez 11y ago
>"There's only one version of Discourse--the super-awesome-open-source one" >in the upper right there is a "Try It" button and a "Buy It" button Well? Which is it?
- danso 11y ago
  Since there's no comparison matrix on the Buy It page, and all of the plans link to the same "Full Discourse feature set", I think it's likely that "Buy It" refers to hosting plans, not the software itself.
- mixonic 11y ago
  There is no conflict in a "buy" button and having an open source app. Discourse offers paid hosting services if you don't want to run the app on your own server. The version on their hosted service is the exact same as what you can run on your own server. This is similar to the model of other businesses like Ghost: https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/
danso 11y ago
[insert obligatory "This is old. Is something new?"] That said, I hadn't checked Discourse's FAQ page in awhile, and I was wondering where it's been deployed as I couldn't think of many examples myself, other than Middleman's forum [1], but I don't actively check out sites' discussion boards. So it was cool to see that pretty well-known sites, such as BoingBoing and New Relic, are using it. [1] https://forum.middlemanapp.com/ https://forum.middlemanapp.com/
donretag 11y ago
The Discourse implementation of a mailing list is subpar. Many emails are delivered out-of-order or not delivered at all, the sender's email is not set in the from field, so you cannot glance at your inbox and see who replied to a thread and so many other issues. Google Groups is a far better alternative if you do not need open-source and need a mailing list that just works.
- pfg 11y ago
  Mozilla recently donated $25,000 to Discourse to improve mailing list support[1]. Hopefully it will pay off! [1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source-support-first-awards-made/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source...
dorianm 11y ago
Their open source repository is full of interesting things to learn: https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse
mchahn 11y ago
The Atom editor has been using Discourse from the beginning. It works very (extremely?) well as a discussion forum but I turned off all mailing. I had problems controlling the topics sent.

24 points by ausjke 11y ago

>"There's only one version of Discourse--the super-awesome-open-source one" >in the upper right there is a "Try It" button and a "Buy It" button Well? Which is it?

danso 11y ago
Since there's no comparison matrix on the Buy It page, and all of the plans link to the same "Full Discourse feature set", I think it's likely that "Buy It" refers to hosting plans, not the software itself.
mixonic 11y ago
There is no conflict in a "buy" button and having an open source app. Discourse offers paid hosting services if you don't want to run the app on your own server. The version on their hosted service is the exact same as what you can run on your own server. This is similar to the model of other businesses like Ghost: https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/

danso 11y ago

[insert obligatory "This is old. Is something new?"] That said, I hadn't checked Discourse's FAQ page in awhile, and I was wondering where it's been deployed as I couldn't think of many examples myself, other than Middleman's forum [1], but I don't actively check out sites' discussion boards. So it was cool to see that pretty well-known sites, such as BoingBoing and New Relic, are using it. [1] https://forum.middlemanapp.com/ https://forum.middlemanapp.com/

donretag 11y ago

The Discourse implementation of a mailing list is subpar. Many emails are delivered out-of-order or not delivered at all, the sender's email is not set in the from field, so you cannot glance at your inbox and see who replied to a thread and so many other issues. Google Groups is a far better alternative if you do not need open-source and need a mailing list that just works.

pfg 11y ago
Mozilla recently donated $25,000 to Discourse to improve mailing list support[1]. Hopefully it will pay off! [1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source-support-first-awards-made/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source...

dorianm 11y ago

Their open source repository is full of interesting things to learn: https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse

mchahn 11y ago

The Atom editor has been using Discourse from the beginning. It works very (extremely?) well as a discussion forum but I turned off all mailing. I had problems controlling the topics sent.