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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 hammyhavoc »

duskwuff wrote: post #27
ironmagma wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

"Only". I'm not into Discord in a big way, but this is propping up my reasoning as to why I don't like it. Being forced to join a server to browse it and having that shared with others is as bad as being forced to login to Twitter/X. Not to mention that conversations on Discord don't get indexed on Google, so finding solutions for some problems is an exercise in frustration.

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

hannofcart wrote: post #20
ironmagma wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Might not exactly fix the issue of publicizing joined servers to other users, but one item of note is that Discord allows you to set a per server identity.

I much prefer being a lurker.

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

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Post by duskwuff »

wolverine876 wrote: post #21
stvsu wrote: post #12

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.

vBulletin is commercial, as is Invision Community, its primary competitor.

phpBB is pretty badly dated. It still works but it's clunky and development has been very slow. (The last major release was four years ago; everything since then has been minor maintenance.)

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

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Post by KennyBlanken »

sjfjsjdjwvwvc wrote: post #23
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.

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.

You can run discourse in a container and the only real hassle is publishing your own version of the discourse app so you can get push notifications without having to pay them.

Zulip is also available as a container.

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

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Post by KennyBlanken »

duskwuff wrote: post #27
ironmagma wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

The client also now sort of supports multiple accounts, but one issue is that the whole point of the discord client is to spy on your activity. If anyone thinks they're just collecting data about game application use, I have a bridge to sell you.

There's also a Chinese firm that owns a decent stake - tencent, I think.

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

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Post by chrisin2d »

opportune wrote: post #22

Their 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.

I'm impressed by how much sheer ~style~ PostHog is rocking, from the Ursula von Der Leyen privacy notice to hedgehog Godzilla hero video on their home page.

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

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Post by fuzzy2 »

stvsu wrote: post #12

Would be awesome if they open sourced the forum they built - we need alternatives to vBulletin and phpBB!

There's dozens of forum apps available, both classical and endlessly scrolling. Discourse is well-known but suffers from extreme feature creep. Flarum, myBB, NodeBB, Vanilla, …

And then there's also closed-source apps.

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

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Post by charcircuit »

makeitshine wrote: post #25
whinvik wrote: post #2

Would 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.

I rather like Discord search and found it to be fast and reliable to use.
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