Ben Halpern

A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. He/Him.

New York Joined on Aug 5, 2020 bendhalpern@gmail.com

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Ben Halpern for Forem Core Team

Oct 18

Podcast page improvements

#changelog

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Integration Update: Algorand and Forem

This is very exciting Aaron!! Can you explain everything you...

Oct 20

Podcast page improvements

Also, is more the 4 featured podcasts currently supported? ...

Oct 19

301 redirect after migration content from wordpress

This was helpful to understand in detail — I have some though...

Oct 15

301 redirect after migration content from wordpress

Regarding the API questions at the end, I think that could us...

Oct 15

301 redirect after migration content from wordpress

This is a very exciting case because we would love to see mor...

Oct 15

Yet another Forem-based community successfully deployed and growing 🌱

Yeah. You should continue updating periodically (at least onc...

Oct 8

Yet another Forem-based community successfully deployed and growing 🌱

Exciting!! I can see that it is already a little out of date...

Oct 8

Forem: Open for Internationalization

(I created that test tag just to see for myself 🤪)

Oct 2

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Ben Halpern for Forem Core Team

Oct 15

Use bin/untranslated_erb to find hardcoded text that could be moved to i18n files.

#backend #requestforcontribution #i18n

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Oct 13

Deprecation: Removing "Events"

#features #changelog #deprecation

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Oct 1

Forem: Open for Internationalization

#backend #frontend #i18n #テストタグ

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Sep 17

Our pace of UI improvements is picking up... Make sure you keep your Forems regularly updated!

#selfhost #design #features

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Sep 1

Deprecating "Connect" (chat)

#features #connect #changelog

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Aug 12

DigitalOcean: forem-traefik.service: Job forem-traefik.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

#help #selfhost

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Ben Halpern for Forem Core Team

Jan 19

How Cumulative Layout Shift needs to be considered in Forem development

#frontend

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Jan 4

Happy New Year

#watercooler

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Dec 22 '20

Forem Browser Extension v0.1.3 is live

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Nov 16 '20

Forem Progress and expectations for the rest of the year and into 2021

#meta

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Oct 29 '20

Results of implementing Puma's nakayoshi_fork on Forem

#optimizations #dev #ruby #rails

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Oct 26 '20

Congrats to the.community.club on being the latest Forem to go live!

#newforemlaunch

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Oct 14 '20

The Forem extension is available in the Chrome store

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Oct 13 '20

Let's close the loop on @ mention autocomplete in comments

#frontend #design

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Oct 13 '20

Community activity box?

#frontend #design

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Oct 12 '20

Forem Browser Extension to allow "unlisted" or "private" Forems onto sidebar....

#ecosystem #browserextension

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Oct 9 '20

Forem "meta tags" have just shipped....

#changelog #ecosystem

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Sep 8 '20

feed_strategy: Coming soon to a forem near you.

#feedalgorithm #admintooling

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Aug 31 '20

Forem visual customization

#design #admintooling

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Aug 30 '20

New "starter state" coming soon

#admintooling

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Aug 24 '20

Explore Poxa as an open Pusher implementation?

#systems #foremcloud #foss #realtime

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Aug 21 '20

How to properly enable multiple call-to-action buttons in nav bar...

#design #admintooling

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Aug 20 '20

Moving from ENV to database-backed config

#systems #backend #foremcloud #admintooling

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Aug 13 '20

One cool thing about private forems.

#feedalgorithm #features #product

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Aug 12 '20

Changes made to forem browser extension.

#changelog #ecosystem

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Aug 12 '20

Is the browser extension working for anyone?

#ecosystem

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Aug 11 '20

What's the state of ApplicationConfig and ENVied, etc?

#help #systems

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Aug 11 '20

"I'm stuck" — should this be a forem.dev #help thread or a GitHub issue?

#meta

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Aug 11 '20

We can run Forem without the Lambda dependency

#foremcloud #systems #feedalgorithm

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Aug 10 '20

Has anyone used the browser extension?

#ecosystem

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Aug 7 '20

How should Forem do versioning?

#versioning #foremcloud #selfhost #deployment

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Aug 6 '20

Is the approach to privacy within the forem browser extension valid?

#security #ecosystem

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Aug 6 '20

I'll be adding some "language" docs

#product #documentation #headsup

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Aug 5 '20

Let's do this

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Integration Update: Algorand and Forem

Podcast page improvements

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Yet another Forem-based community successfully deployed and growing 🌱

Yet another Forem-based community successfully deployed and growing 🌱

Forem: Open for Internationalization