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small circle 🕊 in calmness

@Discourse is a great software for community collaboration and forum discussion. Where it shines is the completeness of the feature set it offers to mods and admins.

A bunch of great new features just announced in the latest beta.

meta.discourse.org/t/3-5-0beta

Among others the #Akismet external service is no longer used in favor of #Discourse #AI #spam detection.

meta.discourse.org/t/discourse

meta.discourse.org/t/discourse

Discourse Meta · 3.5.0beta3: Full admin search, better font selection, more robust site search, category personalization, and easier configuration managementNew features in 3.5.0.beta3 A comprehensive admin search It is now possible to search the entire Discourse admin from a single interface - this includes pages, settings, themes, components, and reports. To bring up the search box, click the new ‘Search’ link near the top of the admin sidebar. You can also access it from anywhere in the admin interface with the shortcut Ctrl+/ or Cmd+/. This interface makes it much easier to find exactly what you’re looking, no matter what it is. Learn more and p...
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Dion Moult

@luceos ah, #Flarum is really nice! My only gripe is that it doesn't work without JS (interaction, not just reading) since I browse the web mostly using elinks. This is a similar issue I have with #Discourse.

(interestingly I cannot post on #PHPBB on #elinks either, haven't investigated why. Vanilla without JS strangely takes 10x longer for the post request).

You're right storage is cheap. Just checked, Flarum is 65MB (16MB Flarum itself, the rest as deps).

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small circle 🕊 in calmness

It would be great if the #ActivityPub #Discourse plugin supported moving topics to remote forums it federates with.

I wanted to transfer some topics with a bunch of posts to another discourse installation, but the procedure is quite involved. Not a simple export/import via the UI, unless I overlooked something.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

SocialHub · Transfer topics between forums?@angus this is just a suggestion of a functionality that may be useful. Earlier I suggested Export topic as markdown for external use, which got a great solution. And after a bunch of search I found that it is also possible to move topics and/or categories between Discourse installations. But this is by no means a straightforward action. Maybe I overlooked other, simpler ways to do this, though. What would make a lot of sense to me would be that the “Select Posts” feature, would also work for ...
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Graham Perrin

Exit, stage left: X, formerly Twitter.

10th January 2025: uni-weimar.de/en/university/ne

"Universities and research institutions leave Platform X (formerly Twitter): United for diversity, freedom and science

"Over 60 German-speaking universities and research institutions have decided to take a stand and collectively announce their decision to cease activities on Platform X (formerly Twitter). This withdrawal comes in response to the platform's current direction, which is incompatible with the core values of the participating institutions: openness to the world, scientific integrity, transparency, and democratic discourse. …"

23rd January: researchprofessionalnews.com/r

"Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X … Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values” …"

27th April: linkedin.com/posts/grahamperri

"University of Brighton, University of Sussex, and other like-minded institutions should – now – be at the UK forefront of what began in Germany. … Now. Do the right thing. Please."

www.uni-weimar.deUniversities and research institutions leave Platform X (formerly Twitter): United for diversity, freedom and scienceOver 60 German-speaking universities and research institutions have decided to take a stand and collectively announce their decision to cease activities on Platform X (formerly Twitter). This withdrawal comes in response to the platform's current direction, which is incompatible with the core values of the participating institutions: openness to the world, scientific integrity, transparency, and democratic discourse.
#diversity#freedom#science
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icaria36 🎶

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).

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how

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.

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Thibaultmol 🌈

Do you prefer reading a 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

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Joseph Lim :mastodon:

@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.”" 👎

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Cultivating Community How discourse shapes the philosophy, practice and policy of water management in the Murray–Darling Basin

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#Toronto #Food #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025

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#Adaptation#Community#Dams
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icaria36 🎶

This is my Social Music Network website bootstrapping log:

the.socialmusic.network/t/boot

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.

Social Music Network · Bootstrapping The Social Music Network(A timeline goes here.) I have just purchased a virtual server on Hetzner (2 CPUs, 4Gb, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). Installed Discourse. Opened registration. Starting to invite early adopters, knowing that nothing has been done yet. Next: basic review to the Discourse settings, draft a welcome message explaining the basic idea of this project, and create a skeleton of categories. Post a first version of the code of conduct. If you are reading this, WELCOME! 🎉 If you have any questions or want to ...
#Discourse#TheSocialMusicNetwork
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Mike Kuketz 🛡

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. 😊👇

🔗 kuketz-forum.de/

Kuketz IT-Security Forum • IT-Sicherheit | DatenschutzKuketz IT-Security Forum • IT-Sicherheit | DatenschutzIT-Security Forum: Eine Plattform für Menschen, die sich kritisch mit den Themen IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz(recht) befassen möchten.
#forum#hilfe#support
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icaria36 🎶

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!

the.socialmusic.network/t/a-mu

The Social Music Network · A multilingual communityI have been thinking… and I believe we should go for the full package: enable automatic translation and let everyone post in their preferred language anywhere (except topics or areas specifically designated for a specific language). In theory, this is doable thanks to several giant’s shoulders: Interface language Discourse already allows user to select the language of the interface. We just have to enable this setting. Multilingual plugin The Multilingual plugin allows to identify the language...
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