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Swift Forums

43 points by damuellen 9y ago

rubyn00bie 9y ago
Are they written in Swift? If so where do I get the source code?
- Kpourdeilami 9y ago
  Looks like discourse [0] to me which is an open source ruby forum software 0: https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse
  - rubyn00bie 9y ago
    Damn, I was hoping they dog-fooded some server-side swift. I was just interested in seeing a larger server-side swift project not the actual forums themselves. Thank you for the link, though.
    - adamnemecek 9y ago
      That's still somewhat far from production.
    - always_good 9y ago
      Forums are such a massive undertaking that these days I consider it irresponsible to roll your own unless you are building a seriously novel integration. Building a large exploratory project in Swift and having a robust place to have technical conversations should be two different projects.
ComputerGuru 9y ago
The old title was "Official Swift forums switch to Discourse," or something along those lines. The current title ("Swift Forums") tells you nothing. Aside: I detest Discourse. It is an abomination of good ideas mated to horrible UX by developers and designers too caught up in drinking their own koolaid to understand that most people do _not_ live in Discourse and expect the website to act the same way every other website does. Hijacking `ctrl+f` in a webpage should reserve a special spot in hell for the person that decided it was a good idea [0]. [0]: https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-to-disable-hijack-of-cmd-f-ctrl-f-and-keys-for-search/16875/21 https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-to-disable-hijack-of-cm...
- roblabla 9y ago
  meta: I noticed titles getting changed to something nonsensical more and more often on Hacker News. The current title is absolutely ridiculous, as it provides no value. I know that the title is supposed to match the submission, but there are cases where a custom title makes much more sense, and provides a lot more value to the community.
  - petercooper 9y ago
    It is what it is, alas, though a side effect is I check HN more often as titles often get less useful as time wears on so it's good to see them when they could catch my interest.
  - kbenson 9y ago
    In this case, a link to the announcement post[1] would have been a better submission, and the title of that post is "Welcome to the Swift Forums". It's not perfect, but that, combines with the first sentence or two from the post gives a pretty clear indication of why someone might consider it noteworthy (it's a new forum), although others I'm sure would not. 1: https://forums.swift.org/t/welcome-to-the-swift-forums/8 https://forums.swift.org/t/welcome-to-the-swift-forums/8
- kbenson 9y ago
  > Hijacking `ctrl+f` in a webpage should reserve a special spot in hell for the person that decided it was a good idea While I agree in general, and likely in this case, I think a distinction can be made based on whether it's more of a webpage, or a webapplication. ctrl-f finding within Google Sheets focuments and applying a background color to matched cells is not something I would want to give up, but that's about as far along the spectrum to application as you can get, so it's fairly cut and dry.
- adamnemecek 9y ago
  Ok what do you like then? PHPBB (or similar)? A mailing list? A FB group? BBS?
  - 9y ago
leerob 9y ago
What's the advantage of this forum over Stack Overflow?

Swift Forums

43 points by damuellen 9y ago

rubyn00bie 9y ago

Are they written in Swift? If so where do I get the source code?

Kpourdeilami 9y ago
Looks like discourse [0] to me which is an open source ruby forum software 0: https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse
- rubyn00bie 9y ago
  Damn, I was hoping they dog-fooded some server-side swift. I was just interested in seeing a larger server-side swift project not the actual forums themselves. Thank you for the link, though.
  - adamnemecek 9y ago
    That's still somewhat far from production.
  - always_good 9y ago
    Forums are such a massive undertaking that these days I consider it irresponsible to roll your own unless you are building a seriously novel integration. Building a large exploratory project in Swift and having a robust place to have technical conversations should be two different projects.

ComputerGuru 9y ago

The old title was "Official Swift forums switch to Discourse," or something along those lines. The current title ("Swift Forums") tells you nothing. Aside: I detest Discourse. It is an abomination of good ideas mated to horrible UX by developers and designers too caught up in drinking their own koolaid to understand that most people do _not_ live in Discourse and expect the website to act the same way every other website does. Hijacking `ctrl+f` in a webpage should reserve a special spot in hell for the person that decided it was a good idea [0]. [0]: https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-to-disable-hijack-of-cmd-f-ctrl-f-and-keys-for-search/16875/21 https://meta.discourse.org/t/options-to-disable-hijack-of-cm...

roblabla 9y ago
meta: I noticed titles getting changed to something nonsensical more and more often on Hacker News. The current title is absolutely ridiculous, as it provides no value. I know that the title is supposed to match the submission, but there are cases where a custom title makes much more sense, and provides a lot more value to the community.
- petercooper 9y ago
  It is what it is, alas, though a side effect is I check HN more often as titles often get less useful as time wears on so it's good to see them when they could catch my interest.
- kbenson 9y ago
  In this case, a link to the announcement post[1] would have been a better submission, and the title of that post is "Welcome to the Swift Forums". It's not perfect, but that, combines with the first sentence or two from the post gives a pretty clear indication of why someone might consider it noteworthy (it's a new forum), although others I'm sure would not. 1: https://forums.swift.org/t/welcome-to-the-swift-forums/8 https://forums.swift.org/t/welcome-to-the-swift-forums/8
kbenson 9y ago
> Hijacking `ctrl+f` in a webpage should reserve a special spot in hell for the person that decided it was a good idea While I agree in general, and likely in this case, I think a distinction can be made based on whether it's more of a webpage, or a webapplication. ctrl-f finding within Google Sheets focuments and applying a background color to matched cells is not something I would want to give up, but that's about as far along the spectrum to application as you can get, so it's fairly cut and dry.
adamnemecek 9y ago
Ok what do you like then? PHPBB (or similar)? A mailing list? A FB group? BBS?
- 9y ago

leerob 9y ago

What's the advantage of this forum over Stack Overflow?