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==Pros== | ==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 | |||
==Cons== | ==Cons== | ||
Revision as of 19:25, 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
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]
Noteable sites using Discourse
- Ubuntu https://discourse.ubuntu.com/
- Phplist https://discuss.phplist.org/
- Whonix https://forums.whonix.org/