dchuk

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   by dchuk 8y ago

   Well, it's been rolled :) I'm honestly not the biggest fan of discourse, though I do appreciate it as a project. I like the old school BB style. One opportunity we have as a forum is to create continuity between the trending conve
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   Thanks!
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   There actually is a night mode for this theme that users can toggle to. I'll get it enabled tonight.
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   Thanks for signing up and thanks for the feedback! I agree that that captcha sucks, but it's the default so I left it for now. I'll add all this to my todo list!
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   No clue! Ultimately it's completely unrealistic to expect to siphon off users from anywhere, instead we should have this as a complementary community I guess.
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   How so? (Not doubting, genuinely curious). Discord seems to be a chat app, which is quite different than a forum and even HN itself
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   That was actually part of the point of using an "old school" software package for this. I totally understand that there are newer/arguably "better" ways to handle online conversation, but some of us grew up on forum
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   Thank you! I'm not quite sure how we'll deal with off topic stuff, I personally think it's fine as long as it's in an official off topic/general area. We'll see how it goes!
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   To be fair, it's only really big on the homepage, all other pages it gets much smaller.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    ;)
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Good call, will do.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    All of those things are default settings that I haven't gotten to either from time available or just not knowing the ins and outs of the software. All of those items are in my todo list now!
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Thanks for detailing this, I'll get it fixed tonight.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I'll adjust! EDIT: Changed this to just have a minimum length restriction. Thanks for the feedback!
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I am they. You are correct. I'll tone it down.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    It's dead simple to setup, and very cheap to host. Plus I found some decent themes for it that were easy to tweak. Overall though, nodeBB looks really nice, so go for it!
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Hmm, interesting. I'll take a look, thanks for letting me know. Just so I'm clear, this happened immediately after registering? Or did you do anything else that triggered this?
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Thanks. Totally agreed that forums (and communities in general) have the cold start problem, and there's no real good solution for it. I do have some ideas though. 1) I'm interested in whipping up a simple phpBB mod that enables L
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Hmm, that is certainly possible. Hopefully instead it can just be folks who are looking for a different type of interaction that a flat forum provides over something like this site. Worth a shot at least.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    How so?
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    They also have the worst Apple TV experience (unless I'm an idiot) where you can't queue anything. Their phone app plus a chromecast lets me load up a ton of videos to watch, I can't for the life of me figure out how to queue
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Thanks and agreed! Good seeing ya post here btw
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Thanks for signing up! I have the same hope, let's see how it goes.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Agreed, and thank you! Come join us! Another major upside to forums is the ability to easily directly connect to folks. I've made many friends that way over the years in various forums, and business partners.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    This site was borne of the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068138 (Specifically this part of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17071224 ) I spun up an instance of phpBB
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    Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN(hackerforums.co)

    175 points by dchuk 8y ago|138 comments
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Here it is! https://hackerforums.co/
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Check it out here! https://hackerforums.co/
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Check it out! https://hackerforums.co/
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Here you go! I'm sure it still needs tweaks, but it's a start: https://hackerforums.co