Discourse - the future of forums

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sp4ceman

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discourse is jeff atwoods upcoming forum software. its a more modern take on an internet forum and its pretty slick.

last night i for tired if waiting so i pulled down the code from github and put it on an azure vm.

check it out for yourself at spacemanza.cloudapp.net

its just the default look and feel i haven't had time to play with it yet. also i may or may not mess with the forums.. so don't put anything on there you don't mind losing.
 
Im not really convinced.Are there any themes?
 
bbs.boingboing.net is a better example.

discourse.org lists a whole bunch of their ideas and improvements. its still in closed beta but you can fork it on github.

a few of the improvements over standard forums :

free

open source

openid

infinite scroll

keeps metrics on "important posts" based on links, quotes, likes, view count etc to allow you to skim through a long thread

community moderated. like stack overflow long term members of a community automatically gain mod abilities.

auto linking of docs, images etc

auto refresh and notifications

its made by the guys who made stack overflow and trello. they generally have a pretty damn good track record when it comes to their software
 
like when stack overflow came out and everyone said "lol we all use experts exchange" and apple made an ipod and everyone was all "lol we have creative nomads"

you guys are devs right? you know who atwood is right?

price alone has to be a big factor. vbulletin is around 200$ per version. every update is around 200$.
 
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I'm not convinced. I hate StackOverflow's design, too. I think Vbulletin is pretty robust.
 
koeksGHT said:
Quite nice, but he reinvented the wheel just adding different mags
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Apple reinvented the wheel and look where it got them!

I quite like it although as with everything it will take getting used to.
 
If you are a developer that has ever read any kind of blogs about programming, you must have seen Jeff Atwood's coding horror at some point. He writes quite well, and his ideas on Software Development are usually spot on. He is the voice of the modern developer.

What he, and his team is doing with discourse looks exciting so far. I wouldn't be surprised if (gasp, blasphemy alert! ) mybb forums will start using it one day.
 
I like his blog, but I'll have to see his new forum software.
As for re-inventing the wheel, better that than doing nothing.
 
DrBergie said:
What he, and his team is doing with discourse looks exciting so far. I wouldn't be surprised if (gasp, blasphemy alert! ) mybb forums will start using it one day.
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Yeah and perhaps the top 500 super computers will one day employ the OS it requires. We can all dream.
 
sp4ceman said:
what? its a webserver running rails.. not exactly the most intensive requirements ever
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Perhaps I was not articulate enough. You have as much chance of this becoming the dominant forum software as you have of windows becoming the dominant super computing OS.
 
sp4ceman said:
what? its a webserver running rails.. not exactly the most intensive requirements ever
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While i love ruby/ ruby on rails. Its current garbage collector is not that grand unless you falcon patch it or use JRuby.
 
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