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I remember watching this project as it was getting started. It was a replacement to all those PHP forums, like PHPBB & Simple Machines BB. This claimed to have more modern features. It’s also open-source, and you can self-host or pay them for hosting. (I recommend the latter)

And since we’re on the subject, has Beehaw considered using an old PHP forum, like I mentioned earlier? They’re really basic and quite nice, IMHO.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Main points against them both are the lack of federation

    As far as I know, Discourse now has an ActivityPub plugin that allows it to federate, but I don’t know much about it besides that, or what that would be like to use in practice in comparison to the aggregator styles.

    • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgM
      3·
      9 months ago

      The ActivityPub plugin is very early and has many quirks at the moment. Can’t edit, weird text limit things and I believe it is just a one-way federation?

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Ahh, good to know. So pretty much only good as a standalone forum then 🫤

        Cheers for the info!