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I’m going to try and fire something up this week. I’ll do some research on software for it, I’m fine spending money on xenforo or vbulletin but it looks like th
by dchuk 8y ago
I’m going to try and fire something up this week. I’ll do some research on software for it, I’m fine spending money on xenforo or vbulletin but it looks like there are quite a few options out there.
I’ll announce it here when it’s ready!
- organsnyder 8y agoUse Discourse. It's not only the most advanced from a tech perspective, but it also aims to promote strong communities.
- dchuk 8y agoNo doubt that discourse is really nice software, and I will give it a go, but it does lack the “nostalgia” referred to by the original comment I replied to with this idea. All options are valid at this point though!
- varrock 8y agoI am a huge fan of Simple Machine Forums - https://www.simplemachines.org/ https://www.simplemachines.org/
- eitland 8y agoAm I the only one who is totally confused by discourse? Maybe it's because rhe demo instance was reset way to often or something but I've never really seen a really working discourse instance. (I think both Mozilla and Canonical (has?) run one but they weren't to active either IIRC. Anyone has examples of a working discourse community?
- ravloony 8y agoI think https://purescript-users.ml https://purescript-users.ml is running on Discourse. It's quite young though.
- flaviocopes 8y ago- https://discourse.mozilla.org/latest https://discourse.mozilla.org/latest - https://platform.github.community/latest https://platform.github.community/latest - https://forum.golangbridge.org/ https://forum.golangbridge.org/
- eitland 8y agoThanks everyone. You've convinced me that discourse can work :-)
- organsnyder 8y agoThe subject matter may not appeal to some on HN, but here's an installation I set up at a previous employer over three years ago, that is thriving: https://discourse.biologos.org/ https://discourse.biologos.org/
- eitland 8y agoHeh, I've recognized that feeling too but I feel HN is still one of the most reasonable foras I know of.
- happertiger 8y agoSecond vote for discourse!
- tluyben2 8y agoI think it is important to curate it, but I applaud the idea. I would say; only allow people with over a certain karma score on HN (>1000)? That way you benefit from the quite strict moderation here. But indeed I remember the days on vBulletin forums; all my remarks against ‘you cannot make friends over 30’ that I uttered here come from there: most my current friends and one of my best friends I met on forums. It just worked well.
- jgalentine007 8y agoDude, I've been on reddit since 2006 and I don't even have 1000 karma. Don't exclude the lurkers! (Who are too busy programming to post.)
- tluyben2 8y agoMaybe you are right but how to prevent it from becoming a sales/recruitement/troll/showoff fest again?
- Yptur 8y agoI think that's what mods are for. At least back in the day that's how it worked. Of course some mods will abuse their powers and just do stupid stuff but in the end that's part of what made it so fun. You had to iterate through dozens of forums and hope that yours had a fighting chance because the mods did their job properly.
- AstralStorm 8y agoNormal forums have categories for these things. Maybe except trolling.
- dx034 8y agoExactly that. I would explicitly allow it, esp since most have some interest in some of the topics. Even off-topic chat can be fine if it's in an extra category. The only thing to avoid is pure spam but with some threshold to sign up (e.g. verification) that can be kept relatively low.