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Show HN: Discourse Announces Chat

35 points by sams99 4y ago

radicalriddler 4y ago
Is there a link in this post where we can demo the Chat app? Like, a chat for the Meta discourse forum? Sidenote: Discourse Forums seems grossly unoptimized in terms of what I'm downloading in the browser. Disabling javascript makes the site look pretty awful, yet I'm still downloading 170kb of CSS (post gzip... 750kb total). Edit: ah, this is just an announcement, and not an actual release gotcha.
- sams99 4y ago
  Link with installation instruction is at the bottom of the blog post: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-plugin/230881 https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-plugin/230881 You can try it out meta.discourse.org if log in to meta and then join the https://meta.discourse.org/g/chat-testers https://meta.discourse.org/g/chat-testers group (self serve) Regarding bundle sizes, we hear you and have some long term plans to investigate code splitting, it is a very long journey but we will get there. At the moment you get the majority of the app on first payload, making subsequent clicks very fast.
  - radicalriddler 4y ago
    Thank you for the link
ilaksh 4y ago
Oh I thought it was Discord Chat and was very confused.
jakecopp 4y ago
It's a shame this doesn't support or bridge to Matrix. I see on this beta announcement there are a number of mentions of Matrix: https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734 https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta...
- sams99 4y ago
  This is something we are investigating. We would like it to interoperate with the wider ecosystem.
rgovostes 4y ago
Discourse is nice software but I'm regularly irked but this hostile "growth hack" default setting. I don't want to follow every forum post after I've spent a total of 5 minutes on a forum asking a question about a weird compiler error. [x] When I don’t visit here, send me an email summary of popular topics and replies That complaint aside, I think it's a good platform for a technical forum because their search works very well, it auto-recommends similar threads pretty accurately, and the UX for reading a thread is fairly good. I expect they put as much thought into their chat app.
shadowsun7 4y ago
Discourse is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used — I self-host, and it's never given me any problems. There's built-in backups to S3, I can upgrade the software 80% of the time from a web interface (even on my phone), and the community and moderation features are incredibly well thought out. So much so that if you take the time to slowly go through all the options in the admin panels, you'd realise that the team has thought through 90% of all community interaction models. I'm looking forward to trying Discourse chat — if the level of engineering and thoughtfulness is the same as the rest of the feature-set, it'll be a great addition to my community.
stoplying1 4y ago
Can't wait to see what fascinating shenanigans they pull in regards to basic builtin browser functionality that they seek to "enhance" or subvert. Not a single god damn time have I wanted their thread search instead of my built-in browser page search. It's not my fault you think my browser can't handle all of the posts at once (it can; and regardless, imagine the hubris to hijack the browser's search because you're opposed to paging)
tarunmuvvala 4y ago
A very underrated application. But I like the simplicity of this . While it works beautiful on Desktops and big screen. I find their UI clumsy for mobile. I hope they make some progress there.

35 points by sams99 4y ago

Is there a link in this post where we can demo the Chat app? Like, a chat for the Meta discourse forum? Sidenote: Discourse Forums seems grossly unoptimized in terms of what I'm downloading in the browser. Disabling javascript makes the site look pretty awful, yet I'm still downloading 170kb of CSS (post gzip... 750kb total). Edit: ah, this is just an announcement, and not an actual release gotcha.

sams99 4y ago
Link with installation instruction is at the bottom of the blog post: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-plugin/230881 https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-plugin/230881 You can try it out meta.discourse.org if log in to meta and then join the https://meta.discourse.org/g/chat-testers https://meta.discourse.org/g/chat-testers group (self serve) Regarding bundle sizes, we hear you and have some long term plans to investigate code splitting, it is a very long journey but we will get there. At the moment you get the majority of the app on first payload, making subsequent clicks very fast.
- radicalriddler 4y ago
  Thank you for the link

ilaksh 4y ago

Oh I thought it was Discord Chat and was very confused.

jakecopp 4y ago

It's a shame this doesn't support or bridge to Matrix. I see on this beta announcement there are a number of mentions of Matrix: https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734 https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta...

sams99 4y ago
This is something we are investigating. We would like it to interoperate with the wider ecosystem.

rgovostes 4y ago

Discourse is nice software but I'm regularly irked but this hostile "growth hack" default setting. I don't want to follow every forum post after I've spent a total of 5 minutes on a forum asking a question about a weird compiler error. [x] When I don’t visit here, send me an email summary of popular topics and replies That complaint aside, I think it's a good platform for a technical forum because their search works very well, it auto-recommends similar threads pretty accurately, and the UX for reading a thread is fairly good. I expect they put as much thought into their chat app.

shadowsun7 4y ago

Discourse is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used — I self-host, and it's never given me any problems. There's built-in backups to S3, I can upgrade the software 80% of the time from a web interface (even on my phone), and the community and moderation features are incredibly well thought out. So much so that if you take the time to slowly go through all the options in the admin panels, you'd realise that the team has thought through 90% of all community interaction models. I'm looking forward to trying Discourse chat — if the level of engineering and thoughtfulness is the same as the rest of the feature-set, it'll be a great addition to my community.

stoplying1 4y ago

Can't wait to see what fascinating shenanigans they pull in regards to basic builtin browser functionality that they seek to "enhance" or subvert. Not a single god damn time have I wanted their thread search instead of my built-in browser page search. It's not my fault you think my browser can't handle all of the posts at once (it can; and regardless, imagine the hubris to hijack the browser's search because you're opposed to paging)

tarunmuvvala 4y ago

A very underrated application. But I like the simplicity of this . While it works beautiful on Desktops and big screen. I find their UI clumsy for mobile. I hope they make some progress there.