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Define: really bad. I generally find the software is fine. The problem is login/security and spam control. Those are painful things that I really, really, re
by bsder 3y ago
Define: really bad.
I generally find the software is fine.
The problem is login/security and spam control. Those are painful things that I really, really, really don't want to have to deal with. Yet they are the vast majority of the issue with self-hosting your own forums.
Self-hosted forums are not a technical problem--they are a social problem.
- tornato7 3y agoYou're correct. I do think login/security is mostly solved if you're OK using Google/GitHub/Apple login. It's the moderation that's a tough part. Many forums end up with over-eager spam filters or captchas that end up driving away regular users. I do hope that with cost reductions in LLMs we'll be able to have effective AI moderators soon enough.