@e418e2c7 Also Discourse supports real-time-chat and events and calendars and a bunch of other standard forum features either out of the box or with FOSS first-party plugins
@e418e2c7 tbch their full service hosted pricing subsidizes the development of their free client, you can run a Discourse application for 1000 members on a $10/mo Hetzner box ez
It's not Discourse being slow and preachy and irritating that killed the forum, it's modern interconnected mega-sites like Reddit and Twitter and, now, Mastodon, I think.
I can go from zero to having an opinion on r/Pathfinder2E in like 20 seconds, and if I want a place to shoot the shit I have one right here
I run a little Discourse silo for my friends and it handles that great, after a fair bit of tweaking to get it to stop being so damn parochial about what we're allowed to post. I'd say that being slow, preachy, and irritating are absolutely not the right problems to be solving with Discourse in the first place.
What I think it might actually need is something more akin to federation...
It's not Discourse being slow and preachy and irritating that killed the forum, it's modern interconnected mega-sites like Reddit and Twitter and, now, Mastodon, I think.
I can go from zero to having an opinion on r/Pathfinder2E in like 20 seconds, and if I want a place to shoot the shit I have one right here
Dan Luu's insistence that Discourse doesn't constitute a real, moneyed, solid attempt at making a modern forum because it's slow and preachy and irritating seems wrong to me too, mind you: I mean, he's not wrong that it's slow and preachy and irritating but it's absolutely the Modern Forum Contender par excellence despite those things
Dan Luu's insistence that Discourse doesn't constitute a real, moneyed, solid attempt at making a modern forum because it's slow and preachy and irritating seems wrong to me too, mind you: I mean, he's not wrong that it's slow and preachy and irritating but it's absolutely the Modern Forum Contender par excellence despite those things
GoDaddy has been buying and dismantling every competitor they can get their hands on in the domain/web hosting space for as long as I can remember,
could someone in the states, like, reboot antitrust law at some point? we miss u, buddy
I liked decentralized tech for a while until bitcoin shat so vigorously in the well that the whole ecosystem was ruined. Anything interesting in the space that's NOT a blockchain?
I feel like dat isn't doing much lately (especially with Beaker discontinued) - ipfs has increasingly wide support which is nice but I haven't ever encountered it used for anything
the Pathfinder Beginner Box is actually almost identical to a D&D Beginner Box that I ran for some friends a long time ago, down to the mini-dragon at the end of this book, and in that adventure the cleric was, indeed, rendered into a fine goo, although, in the game's defense, it does provide an obvious out in the treasure
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the Pathfinder Beginner Box is actually almost identical to a D&D Beginner Box that I ran for some friends a long time ago, down to the mini-dragon at the end of this book, and in that adventure the cleric was, indeed, rendered into a fine goo, although, in the game's defense, it does provide an obvious out in the treasure
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@5cd027e0 is it free-standing? What color are you planning on building the guillotine? Will it be visible from the street level? Have you had an engineering review on the design of the guillotine? Do you have insurance in the case that someone accidentally harms themselves with the guillotine? Can everybody have a guillotine?
I spent 3.5 years trying to get my strata to approve a cosmetic change to my deck, your glorious collectivist revolution may require more effort than simply cataloguing grievances on your social media of choice
I have a friend who's been spending the writer's strike getting progressively more radicalized and now he can't get through a conversation without rolling out the mental guillotines for some ill-defined billionaires, and as much as I'm a union man and pretty solidly centre-left I'm getting kinda sick and tired of that shit.
it's really hard to find a local masseuse who doesn't have a website packed to the gills with fanciful woo treatments like acupuncture and chiropracty and lymphatic drainage
please, just rub my back
we don't have to pretend it has medical benefits
I spent the whole day periodically wandering downstairs and prepping a segment of dinner during work. There's baba ghanouj and rice ready, chicken marinating, all I need to do is make a little salad and cook the chicken and I'm done.
The tragedy is that it's Friday and all I really want is to order a pizza.
@34159fa5 those are at least consumer-facing, if you're looking for the bottom of the software barrel, I think "intranet software at an old or government company" is where it's at
If you're composing content that can't flex in size responsively, like, an image, 850px wide by 700px tall is, like, the upper limit of what a modern iPhone and MacBook can agree on
I spent a little time trying to get a website to support an action on "swipe up" and "swipe down", only to discover that swiping down on a website refreshes it and that obviously takes priority over any locally implemented behaviors
"Sign the Petition! #Trudeau approves Trans Mountain project, a direct pipeline between YOUR CHILDREN and LGBTQ COMMUNITIES! He must be stopped!"
look, there's gotta be an angle here
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