ashe

so we joined a small community web forum again - one that's actually active!

gods we don't know why these died out they're so pleasant and we can just kind of check it every few hours throughout our day and have lovely conversations that aren't too distracting and don't perpetually pull at our attention

anyways uhh, there's not really a point to this we're just happy

Jun 28, 2024 at 7:08pmWeb
Show threadasheJun 28, 2024
this is making us want to go back to our forum-host software project - we know there's a lot of social and personal reasons folks don't often start forums any more . . . but surely having software that's easier to set up wouldn't hurt right?
Show threadrqsdJun 28, 2024
@ashe I'm not sure what you mean here. Easier to set up how? I feel like we've kind of reached a local maximum, at least in the PHP space.
Show threadasheJun 28, 2024
@rq that's fair, we are coming at this from the perspective of someone who has never found php apps easy to set up and maintain just in general, at least personally we prefer something that integrates its own http server so we just put it behind a reverse proxy and call it a day, rather than having to poke and prod at apache or nginx config that is all ultimately just an extremely complex runtime for the software we *actually* want to use
Show threadasheJun 28, 2024
@rq now we admit that's "simplicity" from one perspective and just extra complexity from another so really our goal would just be to provide more options there
Show thread#[deprecated] QyriadJun 28, 2024
@ashe @rq we can definitely say that personally we'd *really* appreciate more players in this space. when we heard about your project we were immediately excited
Show threadasheJun 28, 2024
@Qyriad @rq fair! before we can get back to that we need to decide if we want to write rust again, and if not what do we want to do it in (we've got the most experience in node but like . . . that has its own complexities)
Show threadEmil SocksJun 28, 2024
@ashe That's so cool!! Forums are great