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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You got me excited because this sounds amazing but it's not open source... :/

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[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

Erm. It is.

https://www.discourse.org/open-source

Edit: join us and check it out yourself, if you like. We talk all things FOSS, Linux and gaming: discourse.gamerstavern.online

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago* (3 children)

Oh nice. I just looked at the main site and the pricing page. No mention of open source anywhere there. The pricing page mentions a "free version" but also ask me to enter my email to find out more.

The license is GPL3. But they don't seem to want people to know that...

So I'm not really sure what the deal with the paid plans is. Are you just paying for them to handle hosting? Or are some features restricted unless you pay (the software is not fully open source)?

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[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

Yeah, you've more or less got it- you pay if you want them to host it. But the open source is just that, in that you can entirely self host the software on your own machinery. That's exactly what we do. The only cost for us here being the cost of renting the server (Hetzner in this case).

So, for anyone wanting to create an account with our instance, it's entirely free ☺️

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

Nice. I might pop in and check it out. Ive been looking for something like this.

That being said, looking over the source now that I know it's open... I'm seeing a very concerning amount of evidence that this project is heavily vibe coded. The is an absolute cacophony of SLOP.md files in the repo.

Really making me question the future of this project. Looks like the project started before vibe coding was a thing but the slop ship sailed quite some time ago.

FWIW, I'm not anti-ai for programming use but this to me looks very extreme, very disorganised, very concerning.

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[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Huh. I'm not well versed enough on that side of it to be able to pass comment on it tbh, one of our other admins manages that. I can say that it does at least run flawlessly and we've never had an issue

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[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 point 4 months ago (6 children)

Which platform, please?

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[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

Discourse. Plenty of plugins and customisation to play about with. Self hosted, too.

Can check it out at discourse.gamerstavern.online if you like.

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[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

Thanks but no. I use it on another forum but it is rather fussy about which browser you use.

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[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

...is it? Even on PWA? I've used Vivaldi, Safari, Zen and Firefox with no trouble (and on Desktop variants too)

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[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, wants Firefox not a more cotrollable fork, spits its dummy out at certain adblocker settings, doesn't like privacy lists loaded into chromium, and so on. It seems fussy, probably because it's quite snoopy and sends tracking info back to the server as you read posts.

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[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I don't think any of that is an issue if you're running self hosted. We literally don't get any of that info/use any of it lol.

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[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 point 4 months ago

The browser fussiness can still be an issue, though, unless it's a really small forum not wanting new users. You don't see the users who get doorslams.