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Discourse is amazing modern open source forum software. Check it out. https://discourse.org/ https://discourse.org/ (homepage) https://meta.discourse.org/ htt

• ashkankiani 7y ago
  I wouldn't call it amazing, but it is fine. It's bloated on the frontend side of things, imo.
  • zozbot234 7y ago
    Way too bloated, if you ask me. Just give me a sane reimplementation of phpBB (i.e. not actually using PHP!) with the addition of interop with the Fediverse, custom clients etc. It would work a lot more smoothly and be more visually attractive as well.
  • baby 7y ago
    it's bloated on the backend side of things as well.
• Grumbledour 7y ago
  Yeah, I know that one. It's a blank page until you authorize over 2 dozen external js scripts. Admittedly, it looks nice after that, but that's a hard pass from me.
  • jtbayly 7y ago
    I'm running an instance where I've installed one external js. Other than that, I just counted and there are 16 JS files loaded. None of them come from an external domain. Am I misunderstanding what you mean by "over 2 dozen"? Am I misunderstanding what you mean by "external JS scripts"?
    • Grumbledour 7y ago
      I clicked on the above https://meta.discourse.org/ https://meta.discourse.org/ and get a white page. UMatrix tells me it blocked 32 Scripts from one cloudfront domain and 9 from another. Maybe it's me misunderstanding UMatrix, but I assume "scripts" mean files. Could also be script blocks, though.
      • jtbayly 7y ago
        Isn’t cloudfront just a CDN? I’m not surprised that site has more scripts than a bare-bones install like mine, but I guess I’m surprised it’s that many more.