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# Very popular. Many, many forums have switched to Discourse over the past several years | # 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 | # Great selection of plugins & integrations (though no decent db/index for searching them) https://meta.discourse.org/c/plugin https://github.com/discourse | ||
## ie: replace wordpress comments with a discourse thread. This may or may not be good. | |||
### Example wordpress blog post: https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/ | |||
### Corresponding discourse thread for the comments to the above post: https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-dysfunctional-shows-only-start-the-discussion-at/36016 | |||
# Looks like we can import our content from Vanila https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-vanilla-to-discourse/27273 | # 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. | # 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. | ||
Revision as of 20:05, 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
- ie: replace wordpress comments with a discourse thread. This may or may not be good.
- Example wordpress blog post: https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/
- Corresponding discourse thread for the comments to the above post: https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-dysfunctional-shows-only-start-the-discussion-at/36016
- ie: replace wordpress comments with a discourse thread. This may or may not be good.
- 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/