Pondělní Community Builders Meetup Prague (fotil Lukáš Návesník). Diskutovali jsme o komunitních nástrojích: Discordu, Slacku, Discourse a LinkedIn. Já coby zastánce #Discourse jsem zopakoval svou tradiční mantru, že stavět komunitu na cizí platformě je ověřená cesta do pekel. Na oplátku si odnáším velmi férový postřeh, že komunity je potřeba stavět tam, kde lidi reálně jsou – v současnosti tedy zejména na uzavřených komerčních platformách. Je smutný, že to aktuálně nejde skloubit.
Speaking of #EuropeanAlternatives, is there any for #TransactionalMail ? Not email providers, not newsletter providers, but those third parties that offer you a mail server to send email notifications and etc from your website.
In my case, it's for #Discourse instances. I'm still using #Mailgun which, well, may or maybe not count as European given its owner #Sinch, but also I'd like to migrate to a more fair and social option if possible (also not to just a brand cover with AWS underneath).
"Last week in Anchore #OpenSource" published on our #Discourse . As always, thank you to all our community contributors!
https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/anchore-open-source-weekly-report-week-15-2025/405
Hello Monday! If anyone from #discourse is out there, I just sent an email and resume in hopes to apply for a Software Engineer - Infrastructure position, and I hope you will consider me for this or any other relevant role there. I’m super cool, easy to work with, and can do magic with pretty much any Linux or Unix computer, applications, networking, virtual machines and other technologies. Thanks!
Been using #Discourse for a full decade.
I'm grateful for this awesome software that enables long term knowledge building and conversational communities, far away from instant gratification of capitalist platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYwamikP0E8
#Comedian #BillBurr DRAGS Whiny #RightWingSnowflakes Who Cry About 'Wokeness' in #Media
Do you prefer reading a #Discourse forum in plain text mode?
Did you know you can turn any Discourse topic into markdown by adding /raw/ to the url.
So the url would be something example.com/raw/12345
(12345 being the id number of that topic)
That'll show the first 100 posts in that topic in plain text, and you can add ?page=2 at the end to view the next 200
I'm looking for a new comment system for my #Hugo blog, and I'm not seeing any clearly great options.
I've been using #Commento for #comments on my blog for a few years now, and it's about time to switch comment systems.
Commento has been effectively unmaintained for 4 years (see https://gitlab.com/commento/commento). Their (paid) hosted version has been continuing to work, but I've seen increasing numbers of errors lately, so it's time to move.
I'd really *love* something that could integrate semi-natively with #activitypub so new blog posts could show up in Mastodon and Mastodon replies would show up as comments, *but* I don't want to require a fediverse account for commenters; that rules out most (all?) of the embedded-Mastodon comment options.. After looking through Hugo's somewhat-outdated list of commenting options (https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/), it looks like #Discourse is the only option that even *slightly* fits that, and it's a lot heavier-weight than I really want to run today. Hours-of-maintenance-per-comment should be less than 1, thanks.
Basic requirements:
- Either easy to self-host or has a cheap hosted option.
- Allows anonymous comments plus common external auth options.
- Possible to import comments from Commento, possibly requiring code on my part, but it needs to allow arbitrary names, etc.
- Works with static sites.
- Not a privacy disaster
- If self-hosted, ideally written in something sane -- Go, Rust, etc. *Ideally* it's a single binary that listens to HTTP and stores comments in Postgres.
- Supports Markdown.
Does anyone have anything that they're really happy with?
@ProPublica_rss #BigMoneyPolitics
"Voters hv been hit w a barrage of attack ads fr special interest groups, & record-setting sums of money have been spent to sway residents.. “tt piece of #legislation made things worse, Our #public #discourse is basically who can inflame things in the most clever way w some terrible TV ad that’s probably not even true.” “this spending has the potential to drown out speech rights for all citizens, narrow debate,.. & increase the risk of #systemic #corruption.”" 
Is there any good #Android app with features like #telegram channels , which has job boards , i despise #linkedin and i ve tried irc and matrix (not much there ) , i am using #discourse rss atm , but there ought to be better spaced for mortals
This is my Social Music Network website bootstrapping log:
https://the.socialmusic.network/t/bootstrapping-the-social-music-network/10?u=icaria36
Seven days from a Discourse vanilla installation to a fully featured community space. I'm very happy I started it spontaneously. I think it can be useful to anyone planning to create a new Discourse-based forum. I know I will get back to it the next time I bootstrap one.
@icaria36@the.socialmusic.network This is a test reply.
Also a note that we are looking for more ideas to federate Social Music Network topics on https://the.socialmusic.network/t/federating-the-social-music-network/35
Also testing with tags below, to check whether they render on the forum:
I was forced to use Discord as a resource in a course I took. Absurd.
It's also, for some reason, used as a support forum for many FOSS projects. Idiotic.
Anyone willing to do the forum thing can run a managed #discourse server for a few bucks.
Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, eure Fragen freuen mich sehr! Leider fehlt mir die Zeit, sie zu beantworten. Schaut doch gerne im Forum vorbei, dort gibt es viele engagierte und kompetente Menschen, die euch weiterhelfen können. 
Reposting this from my back catalogue:
> Trying to understand something isn't validating it.
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> Understanding something isn't endorsing it.
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> Explaining something isn't justifying it.
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> Questioning something isn't attacking it.
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> Disapproving of something is not approving its opposite.
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> And agreeing with something isn't blind, unquestioning reverence to it.
This weekend I want to install #LibreTranslate by @argosopentech in our server, next to #Discourse Translator by @Discourse and the Multilingual Plugin by Pavilion (which --small world-- I helped design in my professional role years ago).
I'm quite intimidated because I haven't touched LibreTranslate ever and I haven't found a guide connecting these pieces.
But social music lovers deserve a multilingual space, so here we go. Links welcome!
https://the.socialmusic.network/t/a-multilingual-community/26/3?u=icaria36
Ab sofort gibt es im Forum die Verified-Gruppe für verifizierte Vertreter von Open-Source-Projekten. Mitglieder dieser Gruppe erhalten ein besonderes Abzeichen, das ihre Authentizität bestätigt.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/kuketz-forum-neue-verified-gruppe-im-forum/
I've tried to add lines forum to the 'discourse hub' app on android but it can't find that domain even when copied from browser (where it works obvs.) other #discourse forums work (SuperCollider, Renoise). anyone has/had a similar problem?
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