Hey, I’m really curious how this site specific is actually built and if the software is open source? It’s one of the best forum systems I’ve seen… super slick!
– Jeremie
Hey, I’m really curious how this site specific is actually built and if the software is open source? It’s one of the best forum systems I’ve seen… super slick!
– Jeremie
There are other forum platforms that use this same sort of design/flow. Two that come to mind are NodeBB and Phosphorum.
Phosphorum is built on Phalcon, which is a PHP framework written in C and installed as a PHP extension. It’s quite performant in that regard.
source https://github.com/phalcon/forum
demo http://forum.phalconphp.com/
framework http://phalconphp.com/en/
NodeBB is not nearly as mature as Discourse. I remember the other Roots guys saying they took a look at it and didn’t like it. I have it installed on one of my servers and I haven’t had any issues with it yet, but I don’t really do much with it.
source https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
demo https://community.nodebb.org/
Are you guys using the Discourse Wordpress plugin, or the stand alone product? I was looking for a forum that could be setup in WordPress, and I was about to setup and bbPress even though many don’t like it. I really like staying in the WordPress platform, but open to something else. I’d need to be able to run it on my Linode, I don’t want to mess with Digital Ocean.
EDIT: Never mind, I see the instructions on Git on how to setup a new instance. Great… Git. My favorite. I’ve gotta learn this stuff!
We haven’t integrated Discourse into the roots.io site yet. It’s just the DISQUS comments which are separate.