alt Hacker NewsEvery single forum I see now is using this:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse
Seems to work okay in general. I'm not a big fan of the gamified notification system it seems to have - whenever I sign up for an instance, it'll send me things like "Super reader achievement unlocked! You read 10 threads." or whatever. I suppose it can be turned off since it's OSS.
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sekh60 • yesterday at 10:26 PM
Thanks, I'll have to look into it too, though the gamification sounds annoying AF.
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q3k • yesterday at 7:14 PM
I hate the scrollbar hijacking and lazy loading on larger threads.
I just want pagination and to use my stock browser features...
I work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check "Skip new user onboarding tips and badges".
It is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to every Discourse site you sign up for, so you could just set it once.
As an admin, badges can be disabled entirely, or individually.