Forem Self-Host
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Forem Self-Host
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Re: Forem Self-Host
#2I’m disappointed that there is not a “cloud-agnostic” version. Eg a script that you can deploy to any cloud/provider ssh/instance endpoint.
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#3I'm a big fan of software that makes better communities possible online. Ever since Discourse set the standard for "good self-hosted open source forum software," I've always wished there were something simpler to deploy. However, my first impression of Forem is, "this software looks complicated."
Can anyone more familiar briefly speak to the trade-offs that were made? Why podman, butane, ansible? Most communities are small, but it looks like the expectation here is that communities might grow to hundreds of thousands (or millions), so orchestration etc. is necessary?
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#4I'm a big fan of software that makes better communities possible online. Ever since Discourse set the standard for "good self-hosted open source forum software," I've always wished there were something simpler to deploy. However, my first impression of Forem is, "this software looks complicated." Can anyone more familiar briefly speak to the trade-offs that were made? Why podman, butane, ansible? Most communities are…
I had the same kind of thought when I saw the requirement for deployment. It's such a random stack and definitely not the right abstraction for a flexible deployment (for smaller communities as you mentioned). It seems also expensive to host it.
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#5I'm a big fan of software that makes better communities possible online. Ever since Discourse set the standard for "good self-hosted open source forum software," I've always wished there were something simpler to deploy. However, my first impression of Forem is, "this software looks complicated." Can anyone more familiar briefly speak to the trade-offs that were made? Why podman, butane, ansible? Most communities are…
Yes, Forem is extracted from dev.to— which was built to reach millions— With crowdsourced moderation, feed algorithms, rich editors, etc, and we're working backwards from there. So yeah, it's a little complicated at this layer of the stack, and getting simpler over time as we work to extract from the core.
Background processes, on-the-fly image optimization/caching— It's more shopify for independent social networking than it is classical forum software.
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#6how did dev.to and hackernoon appear so suddenly? For the longest time it was just medium and random people's blogs and all of a sudden these two platforms just got huge.
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#7What’s the reason there isn’t a docker compose-able way to run this? Did I miss something?
I like the software, and congrats on making it available to all. Wish there was a simple compose up option.
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#8I’m disappointed that there is not a “cloud-agnostic” version. Eg a script that you can deploy to any cloud/provider ssh/instance endpoint.
Or any shared hosting provider. It bugs me so much how every project seems to think I want to run a cloud instance to host it and bring in that maintenance burden. It's stupid. Give me shared any day for the small stuff.
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#9Very strange and undesirable to launch with such specific cloud options.
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#10I LOVE Forem and Dev.To
The stack is very rational.. and "easy-ish" but its not wordpress easy..
most groups..and social networks.. dont burst outside 500 monthly active users.. at best.. 5000~
most groups are small and doesnt need a sophisticated scaling system.
I often test out communities with a very simple wordpress install running buddypress... it suits most communities and its so easily movable to cloud...
anyway.. i love Forem the dev.to guys have really created something phenomenal