[HacktionLab] Forum software recommendations

Marcus Valentine marcus at marcusv.org
Fri May 23 08:19:02 UTC 2014


On 23/05/2014 09:04, Mick - Clearerchannel.org wrote:
> 
> On 23/05/14 08:57, Marcus Valentine wrote:
>> I'm looking for recommendations for forum software. This will be used by
>> a community orchestra. It will be private, so won't need a public facing
>> sign up facility.
> 
> http://www.discourse.org/
> 
> Has anyone set up this yet?
> is it open or faux-pen?
> 
> https://github.com/discourse/discourse
> 
> mozilla are using it here at the moment
> http://discourse.webmakerprototypes.org/
> 
> also this seems to be a similar email / forum hybrid option
> http://groupserver.org/
> used here too
> http://lurk.org/groups/80c/
> 
> nice one
> Mick

I looked at discourse, as someone else mentioned it. It looks nice. It
also looks like it would take the best part of a day to set up (Ruby on
Rails, Postgres, Redis server cache etc).

Groupserver looks interesting, but also seems to have a relatively heavy
install footprint.

Thanks

Marcus




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