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Discourse is web forum software (not to be confused with Discord).
by Aaron2222 3y ago
Discourse is web forum software (not to be confused with Discord).
- throwaway81523 3y agoYes but Discourse uses Electron, I thought. Maybe I'm wrong and it's some other gamified bloatware instead, but it works out about the same way. No I don't want badges for posting. That's a Facebook thing, or similar. Edit: I see, I confused Electron with EmberJS, another bloaty JS framework. Discourse uses Ember, not Electron. Sorry about that, my bad.
- predictabl3 3y agoNo, I think you're confused - not only does it not make sense for a web-app to itself use Electron, Discourse does not publish an Electron host, and I really can't imagine anyone using it if they did. Badges are easy to ignore, I'd argue they're a helluva lot less noisy than the Discord UX. In exchange, I get an OSS forum software, I can interact via email, and valuable OSS information is discoverable via Google. None of which applies to Discord, Twitter, etc.
- throwaway81523 3y agoI don't use Discord or Twitter which afaik are walled gardens run by single centralized hosts. What I'm saying about Discourse (it looks like it is based on Ember, which I had confused with Electron) is that it is just another web BBS as far as I can see. Lots of other ones are out there and Discourse doesn't offer obvious advantages over ones with less bloat, or for that matter, over NNTP.
- predictabl3 3y agoI don't think that point was conveyed, and I am not sure of the point still yet. NNTP with a web interface for the majority of users that have never heard of NNTP would be a perfectly fine solution. Arguably a better one, I agree. (Web ui means searchable via Google too)
- throwaway81523 3y agoI thought we were trying to get away from centralization, which includes Google, heh. Anyway Google indexed usenet for a long time. Idk if they still do, even through Groups.