Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
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Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
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Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#2Roll your own, like early and industrious folks in the 2000s did with PhpBB or Invision, or vBulletin if you had the money to fork out for VB.
Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#3Roll your own, like early and industrious folks in the 2000s did with PhpBB or Invision, or vBulletin if you had the money to fork out for VB.
I know phpbb isn't fashionable these days but if you set it up correctly it can be an amazingly useful tool.
I know a guy who uses a private, single-user install of phpbb as his project management software. He's got all the bells and whistles enabled like file uploads, media embeds, and markdown rather than bbcode. One subforum/top-level category per project, and different threads tracking bugs, documentation, etc. Of course since it's phpbb it's available everywhere you have internet, and it's responsive/mobile friendly, etc.
Definitely unorthodox considering github projects and redmine exist, but still really neat stuff. If only phpbb had a kanban board.
Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#4I agree with not using Discord as a forum but suggested alternative number one is Discourse which starts at USD50/month[1]. A bit of an ask for my "failed side projects".
Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#5I agree with not using Discord as a forum but suggested alternative number one is Discourse which starts at USD50/month[1]. A bit of an ask for my "failed side projects". [1] https://www.discourse.org/pricing
Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse
You could hook it up to a mail provider and can host it yourself for less if you wanted.
Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#6I agree with not using Discord as a forum but suggested alternative number one is Discourse which starts at USD50/month[1]. A bit of an ask for my "failed side projects". [1] https://www.discourse.org/pricing
Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse You could hook it up to a mail provider and can host it yourself for less if you wanted.
Nobody wants to do that self hosting for a Q&A forum for a side project.
Discord is free and is omega easy to setup. Low friction, low cost, that's the real competition
Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#7I'm building (with a fellow HNer) a publicly accessible Matrix server with forum-like features. Hoping to make it a decent foss alternative to discord and other closed-off community apps. [0]
Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#8I agree with not using Discord as a forum but suggested alternative number one is Discourse which starts at USD50/month[1]. A bit of an ask for my "failed side projects". [1] https://www.discourse.org/pricing
I also honestly find the discourse experience absolutely horrid. It's kind of terrible to use.
Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#9Roll your own, like early and industrious folks in the 2000s did with PhpBB or Invision, or vBulletin if you had the money to fork out for VB.
phpBB all the way.
It gets the job done, and just about every host supports PHP.
Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
#10I agree with not using Discord as a forum but suggested alternative number one is Discourse which starts at USD50/month[1]. A bit of an ask for my "failed side projects". [1] https://www.discourse.org/pricing
Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse You could hook it up to a mail provider and can host it yourself for less if you wanted.
Thank you for offering to host a forum engine for me!