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Author here. I mostly just dislike the feel of it, so it's much more a personal preference. I like the more old-school structuring of content, instead of the ta

Author here. I mostly just dislike the feel of it, so it's much more a personal preference. I like the more old-school structuring of content, instead of the tag based approach. Not a big fan of the default theme, but that's something one can adjust. If you visit the official website, I can't really, even with a longer glance, see, that it can be self-hosted, which means that at some point the decision was made to push hosting options over the "100% open source discussion platform" as it's described on GitHub. And finally, I find it quite resource intensive and a bit cumbersome to host; you need Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis, which might be okay for "maximum" scaling, but for the couple of hundred or thousand users per month, it's slightly overkill. I think Discourse can be a great option, I just want to hear about other forum software.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
Thanks for replying! I work on Rails applications so "forum software" sounded like something in my wheelhouse, hence the question. Admittedly, my mind went to a similar setup as Discourse so this helps me understand what a host might dislike about their software. I've used many phpBB forums in the past and I often find myself wondering why that UI seems to have fallen out of fashion so it interests me to consider building something myself. It's not likely you'll see anything from me anytime soon (maybe eventually but that's a fuckton of work and I have a day job) but I have ideas of leveraging server-side rendering per the "don't make js required" comment and progressive enhancement in general. If I do build something like this my target browser would likely be Lynx[0]. Just consider it a pipe dream until you see my "Show HN" post. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago

Thanks for replying! I work on Rails applications so "forum software" sounded like something in my wheelhouse, hence the question. Admittedly, my mind went to a similar setup as Discourse so this helps me understand what a host might dislike about their software. I've used many phpBB forums in the past and I often find myself wondering why that UI seems to have fallen out of fashion so it interests me to consider building something myself. It's not likely you'll see anything from me anytime soon (maybe eventually but that's a fuckton of work and I have a day job) but I have ideas of leveraging server-side rendering per the "don't make js required" comment and progressive enhancement in general. If I do build something like this my target browser would likely be Lynx[0]. Just consider it a pipe dream until you see my "Show HN" post. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)