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Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 03 Oct 2018, 12:18
by GunChleoc
vBulletin is non-free, so it's not an option here.

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 03 Oct 2018, 14:16
by Julius
When Flarum Beta8 comes out in the near future, I will put up a test installation. It's very lightweight on server resources and works great on mobile devices, however it requires javascript.

Edit: Still has some issues but it is up at https://community.freegamedev.net

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 05 Dec 2018, 17:08
by Julius
Just as a heads-up the bug mentioned above has been fixed but the new Flarum Beta8.1. So for now the system is somewhat operational and I will slowly continue working on it. However the general layout is there and you can have a look at it (registrations are disabled for now though). If you click on the "tags" page it gives you a more classical forum view that I have made make the default view for now.

In theory there is also a phpBB import script for Flarum, but unless one of the current tech-admins of this forum can clean up, prepare and send me the database of this forum (will be lots of work) there isn't anything I can do about it. However a new start to get rid of some of the cruft (while keeping the old forums available read only) is probably not a bad idea anyways.

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 05 Jan 2019, 16:25
by Julius
I guess I'll postpone the forum changes a bit for now and focus on other new software. Ultimately I am hoping that in a few months the fully remade and responsive phpBB theme will be out and than that would be a good time to reinstall a phpBB board. I like that phpBB works better without Javascript (the new theme likely as well) and that it has XMPP notification support.

Flarum8 is nice, but still a bit buggy, which I why I removed it again for now. I also understood that many people here didn't like the Javascript only nature of it.

Ideally there was a Activitypub compatible forum software or a nicer forum view for the group boards in the Hubzilla :(

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 27 Jan 2019, 16:46
by Julius
Julius {l Wrote}:Ideally there was a Activitypub compatible forum software or a nicer forum view for the group boards in the Hubzilla :(


Someone is looking into ActivityPub support for Flarum:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/17748-fede ... ivitypub/5
Anyone able to help?
Edit: Repository here now: https://github.com/squeevee/flarum-ext-feddle

Might be an interesting way to participate in a JavaScript forum through an external non-javascript but ActivityPub enabled service...

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 05 Apr 2019, 12:56
by Julius
https://www.elkarte.net/
Might be another option.

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 19 May 2020, 00:55
by Julius
Sadly we are still in the same situation more or less.

The only really interesting option I see right now is Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
It is a Reddit like message board, but it is making great progress with ActivityPub based federation support (full Fediverse integration is planned for the future):
https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/32899

Edit: federation progress can be followed here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/647

Edit2: so far it has no no-Javascript fallback and also does not allow search engines to index it. Which is IMHO a big drawback for a forum type of software. Lets see how it develops, but for now I think it is probably not suitable for us :(

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 08 Aug 2020, 23:30
by Julius
https://github.com/IronOxidizer/lemmy-lite

JSless (but still experimental) alternative frontend for Lemmy :heart:

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 19 Sep 2020, 01:29
by Julius
Massive improvement in Lemmy to render pages without Javascript. For interacting you would still need to use an alternative frontend, but at least the page is browseable without Javascript and this should also help with search engines:
https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/40571

You can try these changes here: https://test.lemmy.ml/

Cross Lemmy federation is also making progress, but it is not yet available in an official release.

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 23 Oct 2020, 01:05
by Julius
Lemmy 0.8.0 with ActivityPub federation is out. I am currently quite busy with work, so it will take a while before I can set up a test instance, but it looks very promising.

Another federated forum alternative I just now came across is this: https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/

Edit: nice new PR page: https://join.lemmy.ml/

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 25 Nov 2020, 23:40
by Julius
Lemmy is now officially federating and the upcoming 0.9 should be quite stable. For now I made a community for us on the main instance here: https://lemmy.ml/c/opensourcegames

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 29 May 2021, 20:51
by Julius
Flarum saw a 1.0 release a few days ago: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/27394-flarum-100-released
Maybe worth looking into again, as it is a pretty nice forum with very low hosting needs (i.e. easy to maintain).

Re: POLL: Which forum software would you like FGD to use?

PostPosted: 07 Jul 2022, 22:13
by zzo38
Switch to NNTP, which can be accessed using NNTP client software and no web browser. Optionally, also add a web interface, which must list the details to connect with NNTP even if JavaScript/CSS disabled. I dislike Discourse.

With NNTP: You will have threaded discussions, and can have long messages too, and work with offline mode, and more. You do not have to worry about bad fonts or bad UX, since NNTP doesn't have those things. Messages can also be shared with multiple servers, like other federated systems can, if wanted (although you do not have to if you do not want to).