17776th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 11)

Wait so the goal is to have off target effects?

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No the goal is to notice them and go “wow that has off target effects that sucks”

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Im really tired did I imply we want off toarget effects by accident

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hey i’m thinking of setting up a discourse forum for a didferent community does anyone know how easy it is

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the download instructions seem to be pretty easy but i don’t know how much backend work fol has to make it work this well

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FoL uses plugins for like the vc and thus uses an old version of discourse so probably more work than average

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@Chloe


what’s the forum for. m mildly curious

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depends on how much work you wanna do

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if you’re self-hosting it can be difficult

if you go with an established hosting service who is experienced with discourse it’s basically as easy as just paying them and bada bing bada boom

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obviously the extent you want to customize it also matters

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if you have your own server that you’re planning to install it on then frankly if you know enough to get the server set up you should be just fine to host the discourse instance lel

if you don’t own dedicated server hardware then I’d probably just look at paying a provider

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also lowkey we could upgrade discourse versions, but

  1. that’s a lot of work we don’t need to do, especially to make it look the way we want

  2. the new features are by and large on the spectrum from “uncompelling” to “we actively do not want this”

  3. the plugins we have break with the new versions so we’d need to rewrite them

  4. low user demand for a big shakeup

like yeah sure i get why the discourse devs would be all about making their site kinda slack/discord-ish in ways to solve the shoutbox problem but like lowkey the cookie thread is pretty fun and I think we all like having it as our “chatroom” solution

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an 18+ community i wouldn’t want to mention here

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iykyk i guess

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we have dedicated server hardware. we’re thinking of discord alternatives rn

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it’s for an author group so thread categories+tags are extremely appealing

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oh you’re those guys. huge fan. i’ve always wanted to place a hit on my enemies and you guys just… provide the service!

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Nah, Heretic is the best outsider in BoTC history.

I’d like to clarify that actually I hate the role cop because of the immorality involved,

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Or just rand cop, then you don’t have to worry about being copped ever :wowee: .