Discourse

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)
• Great selection of plugins & integrations (though no decent db/index for searching them) https://meta.discourse.org/c/plugin https://github.com/discourse

Cons

• Ruby on rails
• They openly state that they're hard to install, and therefore _only_ support installation via a docker container
• I'm seriously worried about the security of a project that thinks it's acceptable to use wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh as a step in their install guide

Noteable sites using Discourse

1. Ubuntu https://discourse.ubuntu.com/
2. Phplist https://discuss.phplist.org/
3. Whonix https://forums.whonix.org/

See Also

• OSE Forum
• Vanilla Forums
• Forum Policy