On Fri, 22 Aug 2025, Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltst...@posteo.de> wrote: > On 8/22/25 09:56, Damien Mattei wrote: >> Hello, >> >> why not a Discourse forum? i use Racket discourse daily and it is great.This >> is really more easy to answer than via email interface,particularly when >> inserting image,screenshot,etc... >> but i do not know if the free version would be enough for the number of >> users >> we have and the daily bandwidth. What i really dislike is chat or discord, i >> find that "unstructured" , you can not have multiple threads like in >> discourse. Yes, really Discourse is great. >> >> Regards, >> >> Damien > > Regarding discourse, see my reasons in my reply to Olivier. > > Regarding discord: I agree, it is not what one would want for a programming > language community. Even IRC is better with searchable archived chat. Discord > is > an information black hole. It is also turning more and more dystopian, the > more > features they tack on.
The cool kids are using Discord. But when I saw that it was literraly parsing /proc to see what you are running just to "show" what game you are playing, I just quit. Regarding your reasons for Discourse I can understand. It almost feels like a mobile application on my PC browser and I suspect I will have a hard time curling pages I want. I've had a peek yesterday and it seems phpBB is a good choice? Unfortunately, I was too young during phpBB prime days to remember if I've encountered such forum in the past. Opinions? -- Olivier Dion oldiob.ca
