Discourse: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
# They openly state that they're hard to install, and therefore _only_ support installation via a docker container <ref>https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#why-do-you-only-officially-support-docker</ref> | # They openly state that they're hard to install, and therefore _only_ support installation via a docker container <ref>https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#why-do-you-only-officially-support-docker</ref> | ||
# I'm seriously worried about the security of a project that thinks it's acceptable to use <code>wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh</code> as a step in their install guide <ref>https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#install-docker--git</ref> | # I'm seriously worried about the security of a project that thinks it's acceptable to use <code>wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh</code> as a step in their install guide <ref>https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#install-docker--git</ref> | ||
# Project has | # Discourse explicitly states that they only support newer devices. I'm concerned that means that we may make our content inaccessible to, say, that 6-year-old desktop running windows xp in the machine shop. Indeed, discourse only supports IE 11+, which came with Windows 8.1 in 2013--5 years ago. <ref>https://github.com/discourse/discourse#requirements</ref> | ||
==Neutral== | |||
# Project has been around for 5 years (initial release in 2013) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_%28software%29 | |||
==Noteable sites using Discourse== | ==Noteable sites using Discourse== | ||
Revision as of 19:39, 29 September 2018
2018-09 Review
In 2018-09, I had just learned about Discourse as I was working on the phplist project. phplist's forums use Discourse. At the same time, Alex Au recommended to Marcin that we setup a replacement forum using Discourse.
Pros
- Very pleasant interface
- Very ootb interactive, self-moderating, and powerful (badges, climbing ranks, love, at-calls [@], etc)
- Very popular. Many, many forums have switched to Discourse over the past several years
- Great selection of plugins & integrations (though no decent db/index for searching them) https://meta.discourse.org/c/plugin https://github.com/discourse
- Looks like we can import our content from Vanila https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-vanilla-to-discourse/27273
- Well-funded org that hosts their project (think wordpress.com) for many of their customers. The good here is that Discorse can pay a salary to devs, unlike many open source projects. But it's worth nothing that people choose to pay for hosting probably because it's Ruby on Rails, and a PIA to self-host.
Cons
- Ruby on rails
- They openly state that they're hard to install, and therefore _only_ support installation via a docker container [1]
- I'm seriously worried about the security of a project that thinks it's acceptable to use
wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | shas a step in their install guide [2] - Discourse explicitly states that they only support newer devices. I'm concerned that means that we may make our content inaccessible to, say, that 6-year-old desktop running windows xp in the machine shop. Indeed, discourse only supports IE 11+, which came with Windows 8.1 in 2013--5 years ago. [3]
Neutral
- Project has been around for 5 years (initial release in 2013) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_%28software%29
Noteable sites using Discourse
- Ubuntu https://discourse.ubuntu.com/
- Phplist https://discuss.phplist.org/
- Whonix https://forums.whonix.org/