Hey Josh, this looks great. You mentioned its place as a Google Groups alternative. Is there an email bridge planned?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Josh Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > tl;dr > > DailyDrip is building an open-source forum engine with an Elm frontend. > We’re doing it via a Kickstarter campaign that has just 8 days remaining > <http://firestormforum.org>. We’d love your support! More details below. > Details > > [image: firestorm.jpg] > > There isn’t a good alternative to Google Groups for forums, and there > should be an easy open source alternative for comment systems. An Elm > frontend is a no-brainer. > > The Kickstarter closes on December 22. Starting in January we will spend > the first month doing weekly design and planning meetings with our > supporters. We will also share the plans and designs along the way. We > would love feedback on the project early on from our backers. After the > design process we’ll spend a few weeks building out the initial backend and > basic HTML views. We want Firestorm to be accessible to people that don’t > know Elm, just want a good Phoenix example application, or don’t enable > JavaScript. After the backend and API are completed, we will build an Elm > interface that replaces the existing HTML and provides a richer experience > to the end user as a Single Page Application. > > [image: phoenix_and_elm.png] > > We plan on building Firestorm using Web Components - my recent experiments > with them have been extremely promising and should be a really modular way > to build out the front end. > > You can find more details at the Kickstarter campaign site > <http://firestormforum.org>. > > Thanks! > > Josh Adams > Co-Founder, DailyDrip > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
