Would be awesome if they open sourced the forum they built - we need alternatives to vBulletin and phpBB!
What's wrong with vBulletin and phpBB? It's a genuine question, mostly naive - I've used but never admin'd them.
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
#22Their forum has a nice UI too. Big tech companies have “public Q/A”/“knowledge base” forums for this kind of stuff that usually have terrible design. This is more appropriately dense and easy to navigate. Nice job.
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#23I 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.
We did I this before at my company but running, maintaining and keeping the forum up to date turned into a lot of work over time - so we switched it off and went back to Slack.
Sure messages disappear on the free plan, but there are ways around that.
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#24Would be awesome if they open sourced the forum they built - we need alternatives to vBulletin and phpBB!
Afaik Flarum is open source. Also there is still xenforo as a paid alternative with available source for self hosted licenses
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#25Would be nice if forums come back simply because of the searchability. The problem is when they become inundated with users and have too much noise. Maybe it will be just another cycle which will lead back to Slack/Discord after some years and then back to forum after some more.
Discord search is horrendous. The chat and threads are nice, but finding previous messages can be difficult. I feel like there's a opportunity here for someone to make a similar platform with far better search.
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#26I 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’d take discord over slack. Aside from the lack of being able to use multiple email addresses…
Discord is much harder to manage, has many security risks, kids raiding your server, exposes emails from every user easily, and has a very shady business model.
I would never use it for something professional/business related.
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d take discord over slack. Aside from the lack of being able to use multiple email addresses…
Between publicizing my joined servers to other users, lack of fine grained notification control, constant captchas/email verification, and lack of alternative clients, discord teeters right on the fulcrum of convenience balanced by user-unfriendliness.
> publicizing my joined servers to other users
You're making this sound a little more dramatic than it is. Discord only makes your membership in a server public to users who are also members of that server (and who could thus see you in its member list).
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#28XMPP would have been a nice substitute.
Will all the history record in plain text and grep'ability without having to write slack webhooks handlers to perform basic automation is a serious time saver and force multiplier.
I think the most troblesome aspect of Slack is the "highlighting" individuals.
Usually the most productive command during a typical work day is ... `killall slack` :)
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#29Would be awesome if they open sourced the forum they built - we need alternatives to vBulletin and phpBB!
What's wrong with vBulletin and phpBB? It's a genuine question, mostly naive - I've used but never admin'd them.
I'd imagine that the complaint is that they're old and don't particularly meet UX expectations in the 20s.
I do like them, and have great memories of them, they were my childhood. But I do think we're overdue for a modern forum stack. Discourse was a step in that direction, but a lot of people strongly dislike it, and it doesn't seem to have gotten the reach of others before it.
A real contender for "new forum software" would have to address the fact that Discord is its competitor, not other forum software, and it would have to have a very compelling answer for "why this instead of Discord".
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#30I’m curious why they chose to implement their own forum. Discourse, and the alternatives mentioned are mature and proven solutions.
Speaking as someone who had to maintain a Discourse instance for two years:
It’s mature and proven but still a lot of work to maintain.
We went away from Discourse because it was not a reasonable use of time and not trivial - so you needed someone with dev skills to take care of it.