On 10/23/26 06:32, Bertho Stultiens wrote:
Maybe then also think about if kunena/joomla really is the way to go
forward, or something a bit more modern (discourse) would be better in
the long run.
Replacing one dependency for a "free" commercial dependency is a bad
move. To see how bad the idea is to use "free" hosted discourse, just
go to their license and privacy policy pages and try to make sense of
it. The "free" always comes with a price.
The only real option is to do self-hosting and assure 1) an isolated
instance not doing call-backs to any third parties and assured data
privacy and 2) have a well-defined path from the current forum data to
the new database, preserving history.
Even then, if you read through the list of things you need to
install/run it self-hosted, including NPM, then I'm not sure it is a
good idea at all. Keeping a local install up to data from a git clone
is hard and it requiring NPM, with a significant history of
supply-chain attacks, is also a problem. The alternative is to become
dependent on the commercial vendor, which is just as problematic,
especially if you want to assure point 1.
So, in the end we trade the PHP problem for multiple new ones. That
does not sound like a good change.
I'm with Bertho. Fix the PHP but move it to our control. The last time
I looked at the PHP docs it was pretty straight forward.
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