@mike_hales I'd look at Discourse first. It powers many of the mature online forum communities I belong to and works great on desktop and mobile browsers.
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On using #Discourse forums
Anybody here can offer guidance on nested nav sidebars in Discourse? There's a plugin I know, displays categories/subcategories.
Links to sites that use the plugin, as demos?
I believe Discourse is limited to one level of nesting. Pretty limited for serious archiving/cataloguing? An example of how Discourse the workhorse is only half good at some things?! Here #Obsidian for example excels. Are there hooks between these two tool frames?
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I'm drifting in the direction of wiki-like platforms. Why not a wiki? Well, we run a Discourse instance, for a start! One less install to support, one less UI to handle.
Why Obsidian? Bcos the interface for creating & linking pages is helpful, while wikis' interfaces typically are much less architecture friendly, more page-centric?
But.. Obsidian operating on markdown files shared in the Cloud (NextCloud).. seems flawed, NextCloud sends errors. Any guidance here?
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Helpful prompts thx. I used 'wiki to invoke the hypertext format as distinct from the all-contributing principle of 'voice of consensus'.
The case is a handbook with 'editorial' writing & curating by a few, rather than all-hands. The sources of content & categories are series of facilitated public conversations in the community. That's where 'all voices' figure.
Discourse happens to be the hypertext tool we have already to hand.
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The handbook was started in gitBook
https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/
but for various reasons we don’t wish to keep it there.
It’s being copied into Obsidian temporarily . Putting it in Discourse is a kludge but might be the simplest tech solution (if the nav sidebar is good enough). Unless Obsidian might be made to work across the cloud. The Obsidian reader/writer tools are libre software but the web hosting/cloud tools are is not.
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