Ethan J. A. SchoonoverI say this as someone running a sizable Discord: We have to move past Discord for community.
2025 let's bring back BLOGS, RSS, and FORUMS
Ringo De Smet@ethanschoonover Discourse then? Or back to Usenet? 😆
@ringods Yep. Discourse would be my first choice right now. I miss old usenet.
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@ethanschoonover @ringods Plan 9 is attempting a return to Usenet: https://comp.os.plan9.narkive.com/SnexHy94/we-re-alive-again
Raphael@ethanschoonover @ringods I appreciate Discourse existing but I do wish there was an option that felt a bit more painless to host. Feels surprisingly heavy for a forum system (though better than before!)
mhd@ethanschoonover @ringods I think the custom forum used for the D language also can be accessed as a NNTP server, but I've never seen it used anywhere else, probably because you need to set up a server before that, and who knows how to do that anymore? ;) (https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed)
I never could get behind Discourse a lot. It's usable, but I like paging better than endless scrolling, and it loses a bit of the charm of the old table-styled PHP-based forum software (e.g. PhpBB, SMF). Let's not even talk about the backend requirements…
Markus 🤓✨@ringods @ethanschoonover uuuh, I hadn’t heard of Discourse. Will check that out.