Re: Discourse

[Andrew Bernard]

I wouldn't say lots, and neither for sure. I did a major investigation 
of other free forum programs and it pretty clear that Discourse is 
superior to all, and importantly it can be self hosted, and others 
mostly do not have an email list function. Hence why so many 
organizations are turning to and using Discourse, e.g. python.org, 
Steinberg, LetsEncrypt, etc. I also ran my lists on GNU Mailman 2 and 
Mailman 3 and I have to say, even as a technical person, the switch to 
Discourse took a massive load off my shoulders in terms of maintenance 
and freedom from bugs and so on. Discourse has a very active and capable 
developer community and undergoes rapid and continuous development. 
Discourse also works very well on mobile devices too. There are now over 
30,000 online communities using Discourse (reference: 
https://discourse.org ). [And please nobody confuse it with Discord, a 
totally different thing.] But this is all by the bye.

Andrew


On 25/02/2023 6:46 am, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> However, there are lots of other free alternatives, for sure. 
> Discourse is just the best-known at the moment.