I'm in a the middle of an intense session of system admin for @silex little community
Since #mattermost #opencore model got in our way (less and less little this community) => I think we'll ditch it and switch everything to the forums
So I'm investing time in upgrading from an ooold docker image to latest #Flarum and making it better at onboarding, detecting spam with n8n, looking silexy, ...
I pause and.. Wow Flarum is a great platform !!!
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God dammit, I had not known until now that #Discourse is all aboard the LLM train to hell: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214
Good thing #Flarum is still under very active development, supported by @nlnet. Even though Discourse has been the dominant forum software for years, Flarum is still there, being an important alternative.
It seems to me that Flarum has third-party LLM plugins, but no official LLM features? Let me know if you find anything different
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How to install Flarum with Apache on Ubuntu 24.04
This article presents the benefits of setting up Flarum forum with Apache support on Ubuntu, emphasizing the advantages of Apache's robust features and security capabilities. It provides step-by-step instructions for installing Apache, MariaDB, PHP, and downloading Flarum files. Additionally, it guides the reader through setting up an Apache virtual host and Let's Encrypt SSL/TLS for Flarum.https://geekrewind.com/how-to-install-flarum-with-apache-on-ubuntu-24-04/
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#UANA community forums now provide a static DB dump in Markdown format: use /flarumdown URI to download in your network, e.g. http://[202:68d0:f0d5:b88d:1d1a:555e:2f6b:3148]/flarumdown/
As a bonus, here’s an open-source CLI tool in #Rust for other #Flarum v2 users:
https://github.com/YGGverse/flarumdown
What is next? Maybe Git publishing after tests, then #mdBook wiki, based on at least this dump.
*Unpopular opinions:* 
The #Internet needs a "Great Reboot", IMHO, where:
- #Mastodon is the new IRC, X, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and Facebook
- #Deltachat is the new email and two-way email mailing list
- #RSS is the new one-way email mailing list
- static content generators (say, #Hugo, #Jekyll, etc) are the new web CMS'. No CDN, as they're so lightweight.
- #XMPP is the new #Discord - and no encryption is used in groups
- #Flarum is the new goto for a persisting, searchable support forum
- #Signal is for encrypted 1-to-1 chats and encrypted group chats (when none of the above suffice), as they get the encryption right in a very reliable way *for the group chat* (despite being a centralized service).
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