Here are some forum solutions that have been around a long time and a lot of people using them. both work with sqlite:
https://www.phpbb.com <https://www.phpbb.com/> https://mybb.com <https://mybb.com/> more info about many more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software> > On Jun 13, 2018, at 12:55 PM, Steve Schow <st...@bstage.com> wrote: > > As a certified forum junkie…I’ll add my two cents… > > While it would be cool to have a forum type of capability built into fossil, > I do think that would end up being a very deep rabbit hole and one of the > things i love about fossil is the simplicity of it. There are other deep > solutions such as redmine and others which provide deep collaboration > capabilities…which is where that kind of feature would lead to. Otherwise, > in my mind, there is not much purpose of building it into fossil itself. > Collaboration such as what we see on GitHub, etc..would be cool, don’t get me > wrong, but in my opinion would greatly add to complexity in fossil. I would > be using one of those solutions already if I wanted a big complicated > collaborative platform like that. > > In terms of writing your own mail list software, I don’t know if that makes > that much sense either. You might as well just move us to yahoo groups or > google groups or something like that and be done with it. email is > fundamentally insecure and prone to spamming there is not much way around > that. > > In terms of converting this list to a forum, an idea I whole heartedly > support, there are numerous open source solutions out there for rolling out > your own forum, but yes, it does mean having a machine decked out usually > with MySQL, but not always…and possibly apache, but not always. There are a > few solutions that are commonly in use and basically use the same kind of > markdown and most people are pretty comfortable with BBCode, for example, by > now. There are a few others. There are some other new frameworks still in > early stages, that are more elaborate, but in my mind its mostly eye candy, > with LIKE buttons and stuff like that which is kind of overkill as a > replacement for mailman. One of the old standby’s that are in use all over > the internet are probably the way to go here. > > Some advantages of a web based forum are that old threads can live for years > and be revisited at any time by anyone, very easily, with searching, etc.. > Moderation and membership can be controlled perhaps more easily. > > >> On Jun 13, 2018, at 9:18 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: >> >> On 6/13/18, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: >>> If you do this atop Fossil, then you end up inches away from being able to >>> provide an oft-wanted feature: email notifications on checkins, wiki article >>> changes, and other Fossil events. >> >> Indeed, there are many advantages to just tacking a forum capability >> onto Fossil. But there are also disadvantages. The biggest problem I >> see is that one does not necessarily want the standard Fossil page >> header and footer to appear on the forum pages. People looking for >> help with an SQLite question do not need to see "Timeline", "Files", >> "Branches", "Tags", and "Tickets" menu items across the top of the >> page. (ex: https://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md) >> >> -- >> D. Richard Hipp >> d...@sqlite.org >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
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