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For shared hosting I guess Flarum would be the best choice. However, if you want to go with more advanced you can use Discourse but it does not work with shared hosting
https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles
(I'm the developer)
Comment castles: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles (I'm the developer)
Comment castles: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles (I'm the developer)
Do you have any suggestions on deploying? I looked over the readme. I’m not understanding how to go from clone to cloud. Meetup sucks and I’m wondering if this might be a good replacement for local groups.
- install Node.js, Redis and PostgreSQL
- start the Redis server
- start PostgreSQL, create a database and run structure.sql: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles/blob/master/sql/st...
- get all the source code for the actual app (ie. the code from the comment castles repo)
- figure out all your environment variables (the ones I list in the README)
- now you can run the node app (you probably want to use pm2 if on Linux)
- then connect that running node app to the public internet (I use something random for the HTTP_PORT environment variable, like 3333, and then I Nginx reverse proxy that to port 80 on my domain name (I will try to get this Nginx code and post it here later))
- and then I run the let's encrypt certbot for https
I mean the obvious answer, given that this is HN, is that you should make it yourself. A basic text forum in PHP wouldn't be super difficult. But practically speaking, and unfortunately, hosted forums are a dead technology. All of the attention is on social media, Discord and federated solutions like Mastodon and Lemmy. If what you actually want to do is create a community rather than write software, you could consid…