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Best I can tell, it is indeed Ruby on Rails. > <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="https://delivery.booklet.group/rails/active_storage/representations/prox

• denysvitali 3y ago
  Wow, okay, then it has no advantage over Discourse as of now (:
  • philip1209 3y ago
    One difference is that you can set up a Booklet entirely for free, without a server or paid subscription! Also, it doesn't use Ember.js, which is another plus in my book.
    • Operyl 3y ago
      You’re talking to a community that hates discord and more because they don’t own it. They’re afraid of enshitification of platforms they have no control over. You’ll win people over with self hosting, not promises of free or managed here.
      • denysvitali 3y ago
        It's not only about people, but some (big) companies are more keen to have stuff on-prem than as SaaS
• philip1209 3y ago
  Yes, it's Ruby on Rails! I'm using Hotwired on the frontend, which has been great for making discussions real-time while minimizing complexity. I'm hosting on Fly.io - I had used Render for a prior product (https://postcard.page https://postcard.page), and found Render slow. Fly lets me set up multiple data centers, and they have an elegant little Ruby gem [1] to enable multi-region support on Rails without much fuss. [1] https://github.com/superfly/fly-ruby https://github.com/superfly/fly-ruby
  • alexwbi 3y ago
    Hey Philip! I'm a PM at Render. Sorry to hear about the slowness. I'd love to learn more -- my DMs are open.
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    • philip1209 3y ago
      I sent a response, but - the short of it is that Cloudflare + Render's proxy + lack of distributed backends was adding hundreds of seconds of latency. We use a separate asset CDN and rate limiting, and wanted to turn off Cloudflare - but couldn't on Render. Also, the custom domain pricing on Render is fairly high - probably due to the Cloudflare custom domain licenses.