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Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by apitman »

kbenson wrote: post #137
apitman wrote: post #136

I'm always happy to see an org host their own forum, but as a user I've found the friction of needing yet another account enough to prevent me from casually participating in a lot of them. Social SSO isn't a solution because I'm not interested in Google tracking every community I log in to. I'm surprised there isn't a popular forum built on ActivityPub yet. The ActivityPub dev community doesn't even dogfood one, they…

Given your complaint, what benefit is there to building a forum on ActivityPub over just allowing ActivityPub as a login mechanism?

I'm assuming you mean sending a one time passcode to the AP account? I think that would be a great idea. But it's also highly phishable. And full AP integration allows users to own their data if they want.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by bobthepanda »

CM30 wrote: post #113
ironmagma wrote: post #5

I hope this is the beginning of a trend. Depending on some third party to manage my communications with a second party feels dirty and also forces me to clutter up my (in this case) Slack setup. Discord is even more insane in this regard.

I hope it's a trend too, but for a different reason. All these services keep info locked away behind a login wall, and it's making it incredibly difficult for newcomers to find the info they need online due to its inaccessibility to search engines. If forums become the norm again, and people are logical enough to keep them viewable to guests, that issue goes away and we'll be able to actually find useful information…

The general problem with forums is that once they get good SEO placement they then become targets of the army of spammers, real and human, trying to use the highly ranking forum for their unscrupulous SEO spam, and now the maintaining team has to do heavy loads of spam management.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by georgyo »

mnky9800n wrote: post #131
warthog wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh certainly - I go ballistic whenever I see a Discord link for support or community

At the very least discord doesn't make threads which get lost in the channel like slack. But both suffer without tools like telegram which automatically catalogs all links, files, images, etc into tabs. But at the end of the day a chat system isn't meant to be documentation. It's meant to be chat. If you and me talk in the hallway, we wouldn't then tell a colleague oh yeah we figured it out in the hallway don't worry…

Discord does have threads, just that they are so heavy weight and even less discoverable that they don't get much use.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by alberth »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #97
sublinear wrote: post #9

From the article: > Rather than using an off-the-shelf forum platform, like vBulletin or phpBB, we decided to create our own forum using Strapi as a headless CMS. Wanted to leave a link here for the impatient https://strapi.io/

Why would they create their own? That just feels like wasted resources, given that forum software is a solved platform.

Agreed.

Also, Strapi has one of those odd licenses where everything is MIT expect what’s in /ee directory

https://github.com/strapi/strapi/blob/develop/LICENSE

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by poisonborz »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #147

For me, Reddit is basically my forum of choice (yes, the "old" version is in fact a forum). You can concat several subreddits together that recreate the forum experience of yesteryear. For instance one of the many I follow daily: https://old.reddit.com/r/AZURE+CCDE+Intune+PowerShell+ccnp+m... Not the greatest but it gets the job done (mostly)

I never got why big forums/engines back then weren't converging more to reddit structure, like the ability to subscribe to specific threads and have a custom starting screen.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by thayne »

fleg wrote: post #69
jimnotgym wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are old IRC chats discoverable over Google? I don't see any in my results. This was a stated aim of the forum

It's usually done by publishing IRC logs on a webpage. Examples: - https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/latest/%23ubuntu.html - http://irc.yoctoproject.org/irc/%23yocto.2024-01-05.log.html How discoverable it is on Google depends only on Google and on how those logs are stored.

Forum threads inherently have better searchability, because conversations are split into separate pages, with a clear subject/title, and usually a description of what the thread is about at the beginning of the page.

In theory IRC logs could be organized appropriately. But that would require some kind of curation, either manual or via AI, that doesn't really happen in practice, even when irc logs are published.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by Solvency »

bobthepanda wrote: post #162
CM30 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope it's a trend too, but for a different reason. All these services keep info locked away behind a login wall, and it's making it incredibly difficult for newcomers to find the info they need online due to its inaccessibility to search engines. If forums become the norm again, and people are logical enough to keep them viewable to guests, that issue goes away and we'll be able to actually find useful information…

The general problem with forums is that once they get good SEO placement they then become targets of the army of spammers, real and human, trying to use the highly ranking forum for their unscrupulous SEO spam, and now the maintaining team has to do heavy loads of spam management.

Then only allow paid/subscribed users to post.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by PUSH_AX »

makeitshine wrote: post #145
PUSH_AX wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord search is pretty standard, you can do much worse. Especially at their scale.

Standard in what way? It can't even do partial matches or words with close spelling. It's pretty much exact whole words only or nothing.

Which, is pretty standard..
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