6 Apr
2022
6 Apr
'22
12:15 p.m.
On 06/04/2022 12:42, Dominique Devienne wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 10:44 AM Niall Douglas via Boost > <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote: >> On 06/04/2022 01:54, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote: >>>> https://www.discourse.org/ <https://www.discourse.org/> >>> * It doesn’t interrupt me when “new stuff is available”; I can look at it when I want. >>> I looked at Discourse a year ago, and hated it. >> Discourse is absolutely awful. > > I'd quickly mention (again?) the [Fossil-SCM-based forum][1] used for > both SQLite and Fossil itself. It's been a while since I last looked at Fossil, and I like what they've improved. Here is an example of a longer discussion: https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost?name=1dd382219c - Default view is threaded-chronological, but they put buttons on the top to quickly switch between views. - One can quickly toggle Markdown rendering off and on from the top. - Doesn't need Javascript to render. - Looks and works fine on a phone. - Docs claims it works offline from browser cache and will resync next internet connection, handy if you're on a train or a plane. Nice. My biggest issue with everything Dr. Hipp has done outside SQLite is he's fallen into the trap of "one ring to solve all problems" i.e. Fossil implements a SCM, a wiki, issue tracking, forum software, and lots of other stuff, all in one program binary. I don't want lots of stuff in one overarching solution. I want one thing solved well, and I want it to plug nicely into the most popular tooling. Which is git for SCM and github for issue tracking. So that's a big turnoff for me at least, it reminds me of that all-in-one integrated thingy which Boost had yonks ago and we were never able to get off some very ancient version of it full of known security holes. I **really** don't want to go back to that. Niall