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Storyden: A forum for the modern age. (www.storyden.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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While looking for Discord alternatives I came across this project which looks like a great alternative for the kinds of Discord servers centered around Open Source projects and organizations. Ones where live chat and voice rooms aren't the focus.

It's a combination of forums and knowledge base that would be perfect for this use case.

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[–] 21 points 8 months ago (15 children)

Some kind of weird WebGL error on their site I've never seen before.

Doesn't load for me.

LibreWolf doesn't seem to be offering to activate canvas.

Oh well.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Same for me, why does a forum software need webgl?

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    You mean why does the site for a forum software need webgl, by which the only reason I can think of is tracking visitors somehow. It's not like the background landscape on the site is dynamic or something.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    But, background is dynamic. You can see it has some kind of fancy moving dots. It's totally unnecessary, but clearly WebGL was used for that.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, so it is, hadn't noticed it at first.

    And, sure enough, disabling webgl in about:config causes the page to throw the error, instead of degrading gracefully. An animation of random dots is not at all necessary to expose about a product that is a web forum.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    i added a dumb globe thingy and some useless effects in a mania of creative chaos, not felt a spark of creativity in ages and hate the current site, but you're right this was stupid, i removed the useless webgl stuff and made it simpler, thanks for the feedback!

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks!

    It's not so much about wholly removing webgl contrasted to at least having some sort of fallback that allows the site to be experienced, but thanks again for at least tackling the change.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.storyden.org (see the browser console for more information).

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Exactly same error for me. I'm glad there are such indicators so I don't have to waste my time on such a crappy overcomplicated design.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Could be something everyone is blocking in their browsers. I know I use arkenfox. No joy with LibreWolf or Waterfox. I did pull it up in Opera, and it worked ok. I didn't browse any further than the front page. I only use Opera for paying bills as Firefox, LibreWolf, and Waterfox are set up to block a lot of excess crap, and my utilities love their bullshit webpage candy.

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