Hi everyone! Welcome!

jason

I am trying an experiment to see how this might work as a replacement for Discord. What do you think?

Feel free to give an intro as well!
You can also have a bio if you like.

Dig around and explore. (there is a handy search as well!)

Let us know which Hemisphere to assign you to and we will get it taken care of! 😃
@Northern Hemisphere
@Southern Hemisphere

ericmwalk

jason looks good so far. 👀

jomalo

jason @Northern Hemisphere OnePrimePlus

maique

jason Northern 😊

Deckard

jason @Northern Hemisphere

dsh1705

Oh! I like this!

furstenberg

Good morning everyone! 👋

jason

furstenberg Hi! Would love to hear any and all feedback on this vs. Discord. 😃

furstenberg

It will be a change. Especially when compared to using the iOS app of Discord.

That said, I’m one of the people thinking we should move, so I’m all in!

canion

Seems a bit more like Discourse than Discord.

toobies

Wasssuppppppppppp

jason

toobies Hey Robb! Any thoughts on forum vs. Discord? (good, bad, indifferent)

jason

On to day two. I was very hesitant to move to a message board type thing vs. Discord real-time chat. I have to say though, this is kinda feeling right to me!

mandaris

I'm checking if it does link expansion.

https://mandarismoore.com

furstenberg

mandaris Does not seem like it.

dsh1705

mandaris I think @Jason would need to add an extension to Flarum to do this. Like this? https://flarum.org/extension/datlechin/flarum-link-preview

dsh1705

I think @Jason needs to make an admin change? https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-and-troubleshooting-oneboxes/239715

dsh1705

Hey @Jason - any way to adjust the theme to always show the "like, reply, etc" instead of having to roll over them first? I see that in other Discourse forums, and I find it helpful. Also lets you see the "likes", emoji responses, etc.

jason

dsh1705 One small problem, this is not discourse. 😬

I think I can change how the likes etc show though. Looking!

jason

dsh1705 I updated the css to always show post actions! I prefer this as well, thanks! 👍

dsh1705

jason Well, I'll be. It sure looks like someone made something that looks just like Discourse here!

jason

dsh1705 Discourse looks nice and is probably the right choice, but their tag line "Where tech companies
build communities" (and pricing) turned me off

dsh1705

jason So just what IS under the covers here? (BTW, the "emoji" picker in this reply window is wonky - no emojis show up, just some odd stuff).

jason

dsh1705 This is Flarum! https://flarum.org

This is an experiment, of course, but they have a 2.0 coming quite soon I believe so I am looking forward to seeing what updates that has!