4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right

pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

  • ALostInquirer@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    While I agree, what might everyday people use to set up forums as relatively easily and cheaply as their Discord servers, and not have them riddled with ads or other clunky elements?

    I’m pretty sure those that may have even been considering forums went to Discord because the only other options were more involved in terms of set up/maintenance and cost, the latter to get something without ads.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        You can even have threads and comments attached to specific lines of code in specific commits. Github is practically effortless to set up.

        • Clot@lemm.ee
          0·
          1 year ago

          Just hoping we get some github alternative on fediverse, so far Ive seen codeberg but its hosted by a non profit org in berlin… Which is great but for e.g. I cant contribute to the code without creating an account on their instance

          • SeekPie@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            I really don’t know about these things, but I’ve heard that GitLab is a good alternative to GitHub?

            • Omniraptor@lemm.ee
              2·
              1 year ago

              it used to be but they’ve been focusing heavily into corporate clients and shutting off special treatment/support for foss software projects the past couple years

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      90% of the projects that i use and other people care about are developed by people that have the technical ability to set up and host a web server. They likely have the cash. It’s not exactly outrageously expensive. If it’s small enough they dont have the cash for it, they don’t need it.

      Im guessing the discord was more of a legacy thing, someone was like “hey im having a problem, can you contact me on discord?” and then suddenly we have the rust discord server.

    • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      what might everyday people use to set up forums as relatively easily and cheaply as their Discord servers, and not have them riddled with ads or other clunky elements?

      Discourse is a clean open source forum software that is commonly used for application support and well suited for it.

      Or if your a real die hard for the fediverse, you could set up a lemmy instance for application support. There’s even a phpBB frontend for an oldschool forum look and feel for it.

      Usually everyday people don’t setup forums, that’s the responsibility of the application owner(s) or provider. In this case, the easy option is also the shitty option if measured by discoverability of the content.