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Which platform your forum is on. Or its custom?
It really looks like a good ol' nodebb
Yup, it is nodebb.
Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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> What I like about forums is that a) they're indexable by search engines! and b) because there's no expectation of an immediate response, people tend to put more time into their requests for help. For me there is also c) I can browse the content that is already there without signing up. Not going to join your Discord "server" when I don't even know anything about your community.
>Not going to join your Discord "server" when I don't even know anything about your community. Why not? It's just as easy to join a discord server as to visit a site. If you don't have a Discord account already you can just type something random for your nickname.
I disagree. It's harder.
> you can just type something random for your nickname.
See, already harder.
I don't want to join something just so I can read it. I'll join it if I want to interact.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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I think just putting g some effort I to keeping a FAQ on the repo up to date with things people run into and post on discord is a great solution.
Are you saying make the FAQ. and that will make the Disord unnecessary? New stuff always comes up. This doesn’t seem right
"Keeping it up to date" means updating with common issues that pop up on discord.
Those who only need support are helped and not victims to discords search and discussion -issues.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#624I gotta say Dlang has my favorite approach to this problem, if only we could turn their forum into a simple Debian or Linux package, I wonder if that would help. Basically, you can see t he website or you can open them up with an NNTP reader (Newsreader) client and download the entire history of their forums for offline friendly reading. I don't know what's better than that, bonus points: you can post too!
They also load blazing fast, and post to IRC and I forget what else they do. Regardless, they're not running bloated JS or anything, they just work.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#625As discussed in a recent comment I made [0], I think the problem is that a good modern forum software simply does not exist yet. imo discourse doesn't cut it, feels almost as ephemeral as in slack/discord. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29016033
Do you already know Flarum? If so, did you tried it? https://flarum.org
Flarum is a built on PHP / Laravel and is easy to host even on shared hosting providers. It looks and behaves much like Discourse, but less resource intensive in my experience.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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AFAIK cell modems generally have functionality to send/receive SMSs, and you should be able to do that with the right software. Completely agree about the walls of commercial surveillance closing in though.
Yeah, I'm sure it's possible to do so, but unfortunately my BIOS locks me into the OEM modem, there is no linux driver for it and the windows one is not documented so no luck for me in that regard. At some point I'll pour some more sweat into it and try to unlock the bios or something but sadly for now this functionality that my computer absolutely has is unavailable to me. Same with getting NMEA sentences off the GP…
What device?
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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Never ever ever ever give your phone number to Google for verification or authorization. People just don't understand how easy it is to find someone's phone number and then steal it for long enough to steal e.g. emails. Has happened, will happen etc. Like ssn, phone numbers were never made for this purpose. In fact phone numbers and services (e.g. SMS) are just the front end and are setup to be easy to redirect. We h…
Is it really that easy to steal a phone number and/or intercept SMS messages? Isn't the SIM supposed to hold all sorts of secrets to prevent that?
High level government members were hacked in Brazil using spoofed numbers to access voicemail. No social engineering, just bad systems.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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> I end up having to take the sim out of my laptop and put it in my PinePhone Just in case you are not aware, you can receive verification SMS on your laptop as well! On Windows 10 there is a built-in app simply called "Messaging" which shows you all the SMS received on that number. I'm sure something different exists for other OSes. This is what I do when asked for a verification number and there is absolutely no wa…
There are laptops with SIM card slots?
Sure, WWAN modems are not only a thing that exists inside mobile phones. ThinkPads (and I'm sure other business-oriented brands as well) often (always?) have optional slots for WWAN modems, so you can use them for a mobile internet connection without tethering. I've been using that feature for over ten years now.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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> I'm not sure I got that from his, this needless insult did make me feel that way about yours though. Just a little joke, didn't mean it in a bad way. > No, it's not, but in my experience, about 50% of the people who contribute code I want to merge avoid proprietary garbage whenever they can. Why increase the friction for them? PR critical discussions stay on PR. Would be silly to have that discussion off platform i…
Discord does not allow third party clients. In my book that is as user hostile as it gets and due to my FOSSisms I'm effectively barred from using it.
Well I think you'd find that your first barrier would be the fact that most open source projects are run off of GitHub which is a company owned by Microsoft.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#630This is a little off-topic, but does anyone have a good way to manage different identities on Discord? For example I'm in one Discord with real-life friends, one for a game community, and one for programming. I'd like my account to have different names and profile pictures for each. So far that appears impossible but maybe there's a way I haven't found.
Right click on server icon > Edit server profile.
Custom nickname per server is a free feature. Alas, custom profile pic per server is a paid feature.