When it's time to add a forum to your membership website?
Forum Design Research
As some may have noticed there are efforts to improve the support forums on WordPress.org. In addition to the backend changes, this seems like a good time to make some design upgrades as well. To k…
atBB Community Forum — atBB Forum
PieFed as a Discord alternative - PieFed
If you primarily use Discord to build a community and provide support, answer questions and share information then PieFed is a great fit and here’s why: PieFed has all the all the advantages that traditional forums have over Discord: For a lot of communities, Discord was a really poor choice to begin with, made because […]
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.
What Are the Differences Between Chat Rooms & Forums?
What Are the Differences Between Chat Rooms & Forums?. Chat rooms and forums are both...
What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
The Forum Doesn't Remember, and Doesn't Cumulate
The forum has more and more contribution. Almost none of it cumulates into insight the movement can use together.
A bridge beyond Discord
Millions of digital communities have already made a home for themselves on Discord, and we'd rather not force them to make a binary choice between the critical mass of members they've built up on Discord and the agency afforded to them on Roomy.
What is Standard.Site? Next gen RSS | HILARY BAUMANN
Think of this a bit like: advanced RSS where publishers can see number of subscribers a way to subscribe without cluttering your email inbox and also find the blogs of the people you already follow online. The subscriptions are tied to your Atmosphere account (your Bluesky account.) a schema or…
Why we're staying on Discord
Discord Shortly after I started working on Firefly Zero, I registered a bunch of social accounts: Mastodon, Bsky, and Xitter. While I personally only use Mastodon, I want to provide everyone a convenient way to get project updates in their own favorite place. You can contribute to our projects from any OS and IDE, so why should I limit where you get you updates? Discord followed shortly after, with the same motivation and purpose. I created two channels: #general where Discord would post a message for every new person joining (and others would send a “waving hand emoji” to acknowledge the fact) and #releases where I would post the same updates as on all other media.
So as a bit of a weekend project, I put together a Web 1.0-inspired forum system, but used #ATProto for users/auth (and DM notifs. I wanted to make a streamlined phpBB but with modernized tech Check out the code, github.com/randyau/bsBB or play with the live instance at forum.counting-stuff.com
Counting BS BB
forum.counting-stuff.comWe're launching a community server on Discord! It's a space for folks who contribute, build on, or use Bridgy Fed and Bounce, and a place for folks to support each other through any issues they may run into. That said, we know Discord isn't everyone's ideal choice - it's not ours either... 1/🧵
Join the A New Social Discord Server!
discord.ggthis is really great, and i'm glad that you're thinking about it!! I just started building @atmobb.app and wanted to build a way for it to pull in topics from similar forums and landed on subscribing to a "topic" for those forums. very excited to see what happens!!
