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What about Discourse? They have an open source, self-hostable version: https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse
by eslaught 5y ago
What about Discourse? They have an open source, self-hostable version:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse
- mnsc 5y agoClicked on the screenshot/showcase of the Atom discussion forum and one certificate error and a 301 later I'm at Github's discussions. Symptomatic?
- bogwog 5y agoA couple of communities I'm a part of have switched over to Discourse over the past couple of years, and I hate it. It's just a mediocre forum, but with "modern web" designs/quirks. It does the whole single-page app thing, tons of wasted space/terrible information density, every single thread is displayed in one giant infinite-scrolling list (I've yet to see an instance with proper "subforums", just tags/categories), and it barely works without javascript (although at least it works). My favorite modern forum software I've encountered is XenForo, although it's neither free nor open source.
- math-dev 5y agoXenForo is great!
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- FalconSensei 5y agoself-hosted is a blessing and a curse. Many people like and benefit from it, but also many will not use since they would need a host and setting things up. With Discord you just click a couple buttons