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Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them? (tedium.co)
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[–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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