Anyone aware of a forum community software that I could use on here with my moderators on a few discord servers? With being boosted for the extra resources
It would only be for no more then 10 at most 15 ppl
I made something with socket.io but it isn’t a permanent solution I need something with user profiles, and message logging
Does https://flarum.org/ work?
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Are u asking if the software works for me personally or if it works on glitch?
I’m making my own forum on Glitch. Definitely not at a usable state yet.
What did u mean by flarum tho
It’s an open source forum software that might work here, I don’t know though and have never tried
I have a forum on there free plan. But I don’t like the fact that the user numbers aren’t specified before the having to pay. Along with all of their branding
I would use it here tho on a booster project if it’s possible
It’s open source. You’re talking about freeflarum.com
Oooooh I didn’t know that was a dork I thought it was just another service they offered
I’m sorry. A what? 
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With boosted, Discourse (this forum software) might work.
I don’t think so. Discourse needs Docker, which Glitch doesn’t have.
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???
I suppose you could, but it is not supported.
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You could try NamelessMC but, that is more focused around Minecraft Servers.
The “Powered by” is at the very bottom of the screen (where the Copyright info would be), but since it is open-source, you could go into the files and remove that part out.
Edit: It worked on my phone, which was running PHP (without rewrite)
I say discourse is the best, bc a bunch of people love it and its used by Glitch!
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
The requirements for Discourse does not match what Glitch has at the moment:
- Glitch only has 200MB per project (400MB Boosted). The min requirement is 10GB.
- Glitch only has 512MB per project (1GB Boosted). The min requirement is 1GB.
- You’d also have to Host/Buy Redis & Postgres (Hosting)
So Discourse would most likely not work (even if it did, it would kind of work poorly)
Discourse Min. Requirements
Glitch Specs/Pricing
Glitch could be using a Webhost, AWS, the paid version of Discourse, Digital Ocean, etc.
Edit: What i meant was when he said “its used by Glitch!” was talking about what they (Glitch) could be using to host the Support forum.
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you cant put discourse on glitch i think without super skills
For the last time, you can’t use discourse on glitch. 
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unless you hack the system to give ya a bunch o stuff
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No discourse is extremely expensive. Use something such as flarum, or even self host/use a vps. But do not use discourse hosting options. It would cost over a thousand dollars a year. If you need a vps, use vultr.com it is affordable, and if I am correct, charges a base amount and not by hour.
Discourse is free and therefore open-source, which is what we we’re talking about here, not their paid hosting
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What do you mean by that?
Its open source meaning anyone can download its code
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If you were talking to me then thanks!
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What I mean is, discorse would typically cost a lot. Unless you were to host everything for it which would be probably more expesive.
nowadays, no one pays when they could get it for free
a fork lol
Glitch also has 2GB if boosted
Yes, but it will still most likely not work.
Still no Docker, which is the big issue. Discourse is also really big software.
Later, I am going to try to setup flarum on glitch, might be too big.
Maybe you could even set up a more lightweight forum. It may not have all the bells and whistles, but it can do the trick.
Just tried it. Was too big. Couldn’t figure out NodeBB and someone here said it was also too big 
Yeah, Flarum has sooo many dependencies. I have it on my Pi. The vendor folder is 52 megabytes, which isn’t that bad (but still).
This is why I was making my own in Node. It won’t be great, but I know it will run on Glitch and can be trusted. I might get back into making it.
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Do share when you have it all set up!
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You should actually try to make a package. It would save people a lot of time and a lot fo stres.
I never said it’d be good! If I can set up a thing like an install command or whatever to walk through install, I guess I could make that into a package or whatever. I’d have to figure out how. Right now, I am making a specific forum, not a forum software, but I could adapt it when I am done so others can use it
nodebb seems to be a ok option provided you have a mongodb database. I haven’t yet figured out how to connect to shards so that’s a really annoying problem if you use mongodb free edition
Tried setting that up on Glitch and it failed the editor was all laggy as well
same with wordpress, the editor must have loaded too much files at once, maybe it should try loading only the files you can see in the file browser.
In that case I guess it’s ok to manage everything in the terminal with vim/nano