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So where we all jumping to?
by ahhhhnoooo 9mo ago
So where we all jumping to?
- q3k 9mo agoRunning phpBB on some crappy shared hosting. Well, these days on some crappy VPS.
- mbirth 9mo agoAt least this would make FAQs and other important bits of information available to non-users and search engines.
- sekh60 9mo agoI'm being completely serious, but what is the current fav open source forum software these days? I'd love to host a forum for a small community I'm involved in. Not a stranger to hosting other things across a variety of stacks, so I'm not particular about technology used.
- tingling168 9mo agoYou could take a look at https://nodebb.org/ https://nodebb.org/
- sekh60 9mo agoThanks, I'll check it out :)
- __jonas 9mo agoEvery single forum I see now is using this: https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse Seems to work okay in general. I'm not a big fan of the gamified notification system it seems to have - whenever I sign up for an instance, it'll send me things like "Super reader achievement unlocked! You read 10 threads." or whatever. I suppose it can be turned off since it's OSS.
- q3k 9mo agoI hate the scrollbar hijacking and lazy loading on larger threads. I just want pagination and to use my stock browser features...
- sekh60 9mo agoThanks, I'll have to look into it too, though the gamification sounds annoying AF.
- mjrbrennan 9mo agoI responded to the other comment, but I work at Discourse. As a site admin you can disable badges (which is our gamification system) entirely, or you can get rid of individual badges. If you're interested in trying Discourse, our lowest hosting plan is $20/month, or if you want to self-host there have been a bunch of improvements in the setup process recently, see https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-just-got-a-whole-lot-easier/393915 https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-just-got...
- mjrbrennan 9mo agoI work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check "Skip new user onboarding tips and badges". It is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to every Discourse site you sign up for, so you could just set it once. As an admin, badges can be disabled entirely, or individually.
- reddalo 9mo agoI just wish that the whole badges thing was off by default. It's a forced gamification that's just annoying and doesn't really teach anything. Except for that, I love Discourse.
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- ramesh31 9mo agoTeamSpeak and Ventrillo still work great. It was a monumental mistake to switch to these 3rd party services that are bugged by every intelligence apparatus on earth.
- superkuh 9mo agoI gave up running my TS3 servers (after nearly a decade) because they added a trialware system that required getting approval/serial code from the company every month to continue operating. They were squeezing everyone on TS3 trying to force them to TS4/5/etc. Have they stopped this or walked it back? And to be clear, Teamspeak from version 5 on is not teamspeak. It's matrix with a skin. Not that that's terrible, but it's not great for running it on low power/cost VPS like actual teamspeak was.
- Hikikomori 9mo agoCould use mumble instead?
- ahhhhnoooo 9mo agoThose are voice chat, yeah? Discord has chat too, which is used more than voice in many of my communities.
- agoodusername63 9mo agoThat would be great if your community only exists in a voip channel
- jabroni_salad 9mo agoI had a look at Teamspeak but you need to email somebody for permission to have more than 32 users on your server.
- SunshineTheCat 9mo agoSomeone bring back AOL instant messenger! >:( Jokes aside, I've played around with Campfire and it's very, very simple, but pretty nice to use and easy to set up: https://once.com/campfire https://once.com/campfire
- accrual 9mo ago> Someone bring back AOL instant messenger! >:( There's an actively developed open source server that allows the clients to connect! https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server I wish Smarter Child was still around so we could see how LLMs interact with it.
- hamdingers 9mo agoSeconding campfire. Straightforward, easy to host, easy to backup, no monetization strategy. Most self-hosted alternatives have complicated deployments to enable scaling to >1,000s of users which I will never, ever need.
- beatothewitch 9mo agoPeople talking about moving to Revolt. It's the most similar
- joks 9mo agoYeah Stoat is the closest, but no video calling still. But that's in the pipeline at least
- yownie 9mo agoour groups are discussing [stoat](https://stoat.chat/ https://stoat.chat/). I don't know it well yet. .......yet.
- strokirk 9mo agoIRC never died.
- andrewmcwatters 9mo ago[dead]
- tym0 9mo agoTime to spin up a mumble server again...
- pelagicAustral 9mo agoThe only viable option, of course: https://escargot.chat/ https://escargot.chat/
- hexagonwin 9mo agoIs this open source? Would be cool to self host this..
- niutech 8mo agoDiscourse, Matrix, Zulip, Rocket.chat - all open source.