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Really tremendous read
Apr 14
I think this can be reported straight to the GitHub as a bug ...
Apr 6
Just getting one tweet often went just as far. That official ...
Mar 3
The opportunity to reach a lot of people, sometimes quickly, ...
Mar 2
With the today version of different subdomains, it would be e...
Feb 10
Yeah, with the subdomain model, I think it would end up being...
Feb 9
We have some improvements coming down the pike. The tooling w...
Feb 3
As Michael said, there is a version of "yes" to most of these...
Jan 31
The digest are available to all Forems which meet the minimu...
Jan 24
Yup, this should suffice. Once you get past 10k posts you ca...
Jan 20
This is not currently a priority, but I can definitely say th...
Jan 18
Woohoo!
Jan 14
I don't think this is a setting, but it sort of makes sense t...
Hmmm this is available to me. But maybe I'm missing somethi...
Jan 5
Sysadmin is way more important than the app side of things fo...
Dec 10 '21
Thank you! ben@forem.com if you weren't aware :)
Nov 12 '21
We are very much here to support this Forem and help it scale...
DEV
Oct 26 '21
Hmmmm yes — Our aggressive caching is great for scaling since...
Oct 23 '21
This is very exciting Aaron!! Can you explain everything you...
Oct 20 '21
Also, is more the 4 featured podcasts currently supported? ...
Oct 19 '21
This was helpful to understand in detail — I have some though...
Oct 15 '21
Regarding the API questions at the end, I think that could us...
This is a very exciting case because we would love to see mor...
Yeah. You should continue updating periodically (at least onc...
Oct 8 '21
Exciting!! I can see that it is already a little out of date...
(I created that test tag just to see for myself 🤪)
Oct 2 '21
I believe some or all of this flexibility has already been im...
Can this show up more? Yes! This shows up for comments that ...
Oct 1 '21
This probably works similar to drag and drop. I wonder if we ...
Merged the 404 for 0 posts/unsupported tags. Will be live in ...
Sep 30 '21
This does bring up the clarity of what is being asked: It is...
Basically yes. Matrix got thrown around by @rhymes when this...
Sep 29 '21
@ellativity @michaeltharrington @ioscasey This definitel...
Sep 23 '21
It has not. I suspect there are easier, more automatable atta...
Yes, we've discussed this. Hasn't been implemented. Images l...
This is interesting. It seems like a feature which could pote...
Sep 21 '21
Realistically we should at least 404 any tag with 0 published...
Sep 14 '21
Since tags can be user-generated, the concept of fully deleti...
Seems like the logical tweak would be fairly minimal.
You have the functionality. I believe some of the logic just ...
I'd encourage you to play around with alternate "templates" (...
Sep 13 '21
Are you referring to these kinds of images?
Very happy this is working!!! The CDN/edge caching story is ...
We use Fastly on DEV and there is more built-in logic for rea...
Sep 9 '21
Yeah, this seems unlikely related to youtube specifically. Bu...
Yes, this is correct. I don't know why this would spike RAM. ...
We can replace the "connect" icon link with "Create post" li...
Sep 8 '21
I can appreciate this comment and hopefully Connect does mak...
Sep 1 '21
DEV currently runs on a configuration which uses ~6GB of RAM ...
Aug 23 '21
I suspect that this issue is not DigitalOcean-specific. Not s...
Aug 19 '21
Neat.
Aug 18 '21
Just went live with this work-in-progress lets.garden/
Woohoo it worked, let's garden! Really great to see you arou...
We had this in place a little while ago and removed it becaus...
Aug 17 '21
Hey, sorry about this — It's actually out of date. This is a ...
Yay!
Aug 16 '21
Check out pages for the place where you can add arbitrary fro...
Aug 6 '21
If you want to get a sense of the interesting folks hanging a...
And yeah, Forem is designed to be extremely scalable — both t...
Yes, all of this! A few additional thoughts: When reading ...
Can’t straight up modify the ruby code in that way, but maybe...
Aug 3 '21
… I see you’re getting up and running on Forem Cloud, which i...
Aug 2 '21
As far as options for self-hosting Forems, I personally like ...
That’s exciting!
Great to have you! If you run into any questions, make a post...
There's a button in the top-right of the admin/listings area....
Nothing major, you should create a welcome post. And I notice...
Jul 30 '21
Awesome, congrats! Looks like there's still some more configu...
We'll be addressing this soon.
Jul 29 '21
The current hangup is that we want to make liquid embeds more...
Jul 26 '21
Nice to meet you
Jul 25 '21
Yes, absolutely. The ability to make Forems more distinct is ...
Jul 23 '21
Great to have you!
Jul 21 '21
Hi!
Hello Michael!
Jul 20 '21
Let's gooo
This can become a bug report issue if it isn't already.
We have some configuration coming down the pike to allow for ...
Hey folks, we at DEV were actually given the instruction from...
Jul 1 '21
Good! Great to have you.
Jun 30 '21
This is interesting. We crossed one bridge a while back when ...
Jun 21 '21
I see this kind of annotation being most useful as a function...
The concept of linking to a Q/A area as shown in that cover p...
Jun 19 '21
😊 Let’s talk though. It needs to be cohesive.
Not forgotten, currently being worked on and aiming for the f...
Jun 15 '21
Hi
Jun 11 '21
Liquid tags quick add This is great, as are a lot of these...
We're uh.. ummm... working on getting that squared away.
Jun 10 '21
This is such a well thought out feature. Tremendous work @ale...
Did you find this thread because I pinned it?
Jun 8 '21
Hmmmm seems like aspect ratio could be an advanced option. I'...
They are new. I just noticed that my post got pinned over at ...
I suspect this could be any number of issues... Hard to figur...
Apr 2 '21
There'll be real big announcements in the not-too-distant fut...
Apr 1 '21
Here are tagline and description as configured on DEV right n...
Mar 30 '21
Hmmm, what's the OS/browser here and/or settings that enable ...
I'm no .ai wiz, but maybe this will help:
Mar 26 '21
....The i button triggers the editor guide, but it seems li...
Mar 23 '21
I think this should be possible. Currently we have been caugh...
Mar 22 '21
It looks like the source image is not very sharp, and it's an...
We can actually do this without new code in the core using th...
Yeah, seeing the backticks makes me think maybe this is displ...
I'm kind of surprised we don't do that already. I just creat...
We're nearing this point and actively working on it. We'll ha...
Feb 27 '21
Sitemap submission frequency shouldn't matter, as Google will...
Feb 10 '21
This was originally considered in the model, and then never r...
Feb 2 '21
Offline is one big glob of HTML... It should be something tha...
Feb 1 '21
Moving from a PHP/mysql Forum to Forem would be a certain typ...
That’s weird. Definitely make an issue
Jan 24 '21
@rhymes want to weigh in here on the state of this?
Jan 21 '21
I think we've had a hard time improving this because we use t...
Jan 20 '21
Yeah, it's shaping out in exciting ways.
Jan 12 '21
It just so happens that this is already an option! We have a ...
I'm glad this post exists before upgrading myself.
Jan 5 '21
I think the answer to a lot of this is integrations... We al...
Jan 3 '21
Currently it's done manually— But it uses PNG Logo. In the f...
Dec 21 '20
Add missing default social ima...
Dec 17 '20
This is a great thought. We have discussed this internally an...
You’ll need standard 2 in general, but we’re working on lesse...
Dec 16 '20
I think the question is whether this should be built in to th...
Yeah good call
Dec 11 '20
Good call. The PWA should take brand colors and not just black
Dec 7 '20
@jdoss
Nov 21 '20
Several months ago, but we’ve also been fairly heads down so ...
Good to have you 😅
Nov 20 '20
I suspect the best scenario is mostly to start getting the i1...
Nov 14 '20
I've been VERY fond of this kind of thing 😄
Nov 13 '20
Probably makes sense for the "acceptance" of a request to tri...
Nov 11 '20
Welcome!
Nov 9 '20
Hell yeah! Only the beginning. This PR is definitely going ...
Nov 7 '20
That's good!
Oct 30 '20
Can you clarify whether you're talking about hosted by us or ...
The one thing that specialty platforms like Forem are able to...
Commented on the issue. I'm in favor of this generally.
Oct 26 '20
Reactions were originally meant to be extensible and ultimate...
Made an issue cmd/ctrl+retur...
This is great. One shortcut that "went missing" when we updat...
Yep, you can also alter seeds.db to change what comes out in ...
Oct 20 '20
We would likely need to build a generalized gateway from the ...
cc: @maestromac
Oct 16 '20
I 1000% agree.... My thoughts here are mostly that we've disc...
Oct 14 '20
Fixed ✅
Oct 9 '20
Hello!
Makes sense for sure
Open your .env and change APP_DOMAIN to "your own Gitpod For...
Oct 8 '20
Yup, I've definitely had this thought. Each Forem itself alre...
Oct 2 '20
In my view the qualities that make something "eligible" as a ...
Sep 17 '20
true
Sep 10 '20
Yup, any kind of extensibility of functionality is definitely...
Sep 9 '20
I think the technical term may be "thing". 😄 Forem needs "thi...
Sep 8 '20
Yup, we should make this more clear... No forem needs more th...
Sep 6 '20
Great to have you!!
Sep 3 '20
Yup! .... I didn't even realize this would apply to all link...
10000% agree. I think the raw DIY thing should be pretty rare...
This is live now for new forems.... Not yet the end state, bu...
Sep 2 '20
Yeah exactly. Ideally we don't want to be going into console ...
Aug 31 '20
Hey hey!
Aug 30 '20
One more time testing
Aug 28 '20
Another test
dsddsdsdsdsdsds
test test test
We have something pretty similar with liquid tags, e.g. {% y...
Aug 27 '20
Yeah, I really cover-complicated some things by wanting to en...
Aug 26 '20
Yup, these are just missing a bit of functionality, but they'...
100%. We've not wanted to jump into this because of technica...
Boom. Added it as supported.
Aug 25 '20
Yup, I think this is the big question.... Also, I feel like ...
This is a great call! I'm going to approve the linked issue ...
The good thing is that if we run into problems we could alway...
Aug 24 '20
Yeah, I think the primary action can be first, and then other...
Aug 21 '20
Yeah, I think this makes sense. For a while we were thinking ...
Great guide
Aug 20 '20
We're definitely lacking the docs to give good guidance here....
Aug 19 '20
Thanks for the writeup!
Great to have you! We'll have plenty of updates soon about ho...
Aug 18 '20
I think what we most need is some clarity over certain if thi...
This is really great. More thorough than anything we even hav...
Great to have you Melissa!
Aug 17 '20
I'll punt this to @jdoss for most relevant opinion. :)
Aug 14 '20
Love this idea
I have a couple of these sitting in my office and I want to g...
Hell yeah! This is sooooo in the spirit of Forem! I love it s...
Have you considered making profile pages similar to github p...
Maybe this is something we should be able to display on a cas...
Aug 13 '20
Our online conference CodeLand was entirely done through cust...
Tada! test test test test
Yup, and the "Forem Cloud" version will be a quick install wi...
🎉
I'm definitely in favor of annotations! I think they should ...
Yup! Every forem can reward their own badges. forem.dev adopt...
Aug 12 '20
Yup, I think it's important that people can genuinely be diff...
This comes into the topic of pseudo-centralization, where we ...
test
How much will it cost to handle the hosting once Forem comes...
It should load automatically, but unsure why it would and wou...
Then suddenly it appeared on all my sites And is that all ...
So it took you visiting that endpoint manually before it work...
Any error messages?
Have you tried in Chrome and Brave? I wonder if Brave has dif...
Hey!
I feel like expunge isn't really part of my normal vocabulary...
I feel like we've talked enough about this to go with "suspen...
I am aware that I can do this with pages as they let me incl...
This PR is merged. Not 100% sure it's the full solution yet t...
Hey hey
Aug 11 '20
For me Forem is a less intimidating place to post. I always ...
Okay great, so when this is done, no more required env vars?
@molly_struve can you point me in the right direction?
🙂 We are currently working to get all of these fields 100% c...
Hey Francisco!
Should DEV receive any special treatment at all? IMO yes, ...
Hey Amy!
Hmmmm It's definitely the 422 on the PATCH that is causing th...
github.com/forem/forem-browser-ext... I'll edit it into the ...
Wiki tag is a good idea. ... This is a good topic in genera...
Good call. This is one of those things that isn't open source...
Yes!
I think being open source is going to be the key differentiat...
Hello 🙂
Yeah, I'm concerned that the "boot up" logic is a little inco...
Yup! We’d just want to do it in a way that respects the indep...
Any aspect of Forem you're most looking forward to getting in...
Aug 10 '20
:)
I think we're running about .5GB of RAM per instance on PUMA,...
Great
Hey Andrew!
Videos tend to be best for getting started as opposed to deep...
Yup, we're definitely expanding beyond GitHub and Twitter. G...
+1
I think clicking the footer mascot should do something— possi...
Hey Greg!
🌱
Last 250 comments
🏮Forem Creator Spotlight 💡and AMA: @rayan
Really tremendous read
Post editor not fully visible on load
I think this can be reported straight to the GitHub as a bug ...
What is your favorite way to reward your community members?
Just getting one tweet often went just as far. That official ...
What is your favorite way to reward your community members?
The opportunity to reach a lot of people, sometimes quickly, ...
How to properly install a forum in two different languages?
With the today version of different subdomains, it would be e...
How to properly install a forum in two different languages?
Yeah, with the subdomain model, I think it would end up being...
Spam posts
We have some improvements coming down the pike. The tooling w...
Can these features done with FOREM?
As Michael said, there is a version of "yes" to most of these...
My Revue + Twitter Newsletter Experience
The digest are available to all Forems which meet the minimu...
Google sitemap checkin
Yup, this should suffice. Once you get past 10k posts you ca...
PayPal integration?
This is not currently a priority, but I can definitely say th...
Changelog: New Year, New U(ser authentication provider) - Sign in with Google
Woohoo!
Onboarding Modal - BG Color
I don't think this is a setting, but it sort of makes sense t...
Feature request: remove yourself from an org
Hmmm this is available to me. But maybe I'm missing somethi...
Question: how much of the tech stack should I be familiar with to selfhost forem?
Sysadmin is way more important than the app side of things fo...
Can I use Fastly on Self-hosted Forem?
Thank you! ben@forem.com if you weren't aware :)
Can I use Fastly on Self-hosted Forem?
We are very much here to support this Forem and help it scale...
Share your Forem!
DEV
Nav Bar Name shows differently
Hmmmm yes — Our aggressive caching is great for scaling since...
Integration Update: Algorand and Forem
This is very exciting Aaron!! Can you explain everything you...
Podcast page improvements
Also, is more the 4 featured podcasts currently supported? ...
301 redirect after migration content from wordpress [resolved]
This was helpful to understand in detail — I have some though...
301 redirect after migration content from wordpress [resolved]
Regarding the API questions at the end, I think that could us...
301 redirect after migration content from wordpress [resolved]
This is a very exciting case because we would love to see mor...
Yet another Forem-based community successfully deployed and growing 🌱
Yeah. You should continue updating periodically (at least onc...
Yet another Forem-based community successfully deployed and growing 🌱
Exciting!! I can see that it is already a little out of date...
Forem: Open for Internationalization
(I created that test tag just to see for myself 🤪)
Forem: Open for Internationalization
I believe some or all of this flexibility has already been im...
Feature Request: More Comment Previews on Home page
Can this show up more? Yes! This shows up for comments that ...
Feature Request: Paste Image
This probably works similar to drag and drop. I wonder if we ...
Is it possible to delete/hide tags?
Merged the 404 for 0 posts/unsupported tags. Will be live in ...
Feature Request: Add search to Tags page
This does bring up the clarity of what is being asked: It is...
Deprecating "Connect" (chat)
Basically yes. Matrix got thrown around by @rhymes when this...
Organizations vs Tags
@ellativity @michaeltharrington @ioscasey This definitel...
is Forem protected against hot-linking of images?
It has not. I suspect there are easier, more automatable atta...
is Forem protected against hot-linking of images?
Yes, we've discussed this. Hasn't been implemented. Images l...
Add abuse indicator
This is interesting. It seems like a feature which could pote...
Is it possible to delete/hide tags?
Realistically we should at least 404 any tag with 0 published...
Is it possible to delete/hide tags?
Since tags can be user-generated, the concept of fully deleti...
How to enable Read next on my forum ?
Seems like the logical tweak would be fairly minimal.
How to enable Read next on my forum ?
You have the functionality. I believe some of the logic just ...
Custom Page: Spotify Embed
I'd encourage you to play around with alternate "templates" (...
About autogenerated title images
Are you referring to these kinds of images?
Got on HN, Forem is doing great :^)
Very happy this is working!!! The CDN/edge caching story is ...
Scalability of FOREM selfhost
We use Fastly on DEV and there is more built-in logic for rea...
Scalability of FOREM selfhost
Yeah, this seems unlikely related to youtube specifically. Bu...
Scalability of FOREM selfhost
Yes, this is correct. I don't know why this would spike RAM. ...
Deprecating "Connect" (chat)
We can replace the "connect" icon link with "Create post" li...
Deprecating "Connect" (chat)
I can appreciate this comment and hopefully Connect does mak...
Scalability of FOREM selfhost
DEV currently runs on a configuration which uses ~6GB of RAM ...
Forem DigitalOcean setup SMTP does not work.
I suspect that this issue is not DigitalOcean-specific. Not s...
Easy deployment via Docker
Neat.
What are you working on? Share your Forem!
Just went live with this work-in-progress lets.garden/
DigitalOcean: forem-traefik.service: Job forem-traefik.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Woohoo it worked, let's garden! Really great to see you arou...
Support language property in articles
We had this in place a little while ago and removed it becaus...
Are all built-in assets redistributable?
Hey, sorry about this — It's actually out of date. This is a ...
Love forem
Yay!
Allow admin to inject js and css into a forem
Check out pages for the place where you can add arbitrary fro...
Welcome thread - v1
If you want to get a sense of the interesting folks hanging a...
Can Forem Handle 10,000 tags? + Post Navigation + Ads
And yeah, Forem is designed to be extremely scalable — both t...
Can Forem Handle 10,000 tags? + Post Navigation + Ads
Yes, all of this! A few additional thoughts: When reading ...
I got my forem up and running
Can’t straight up modify the ruby code in that way, but maybe...
Welcome thread v0
… I see you’re getting up and running on Forem Cloud, which i...
Welcome thread v0
As far as options for self-hosting Forems, I personally like ...
Welcome thread v0
That’s exciting!
Welcome thread v0
Great to have you! If you run into any questions, make a post...
How do I add listing categories?
There's a button in the top-right of the admin/listings area....
I got my forem up and running
Nothing major, you should create a welcome post. And I notice...
I got my forem up and running
Awesome, congrats! Looks like there's still some more configu...
Remove dependency on Pusher
We'll be addressing this soon.
Embedding DartPad
The current hangup is that we want to make liquid embeds more...
Welcome thread v0
Nice to meet you
The possibility of adding user made color themes
Yes, absolutely. The ability to make Forems more distinct is ...
Welcome thread v0
Great to have you!
Welcome thread v0
Hi!
Welcome thread v0
Hello Michael!
Introducing Forem Self-Host
Let's gooo
Homefeed sponsorship image bug
This can become a bug report issue if it isn't already.
We can do much more with the resizing of images.
We have some configuration coming down the pike to allow for ...
Unable to submit sitemap.
Hey folks, we at DEV were actually given the instruction from...
Welcome thread v0
Good! Great to have you.
Read only frontend tokens
This is interesting. We crossed one bridge a while back when ...
Feature request: add underlining function for others posts
I see this kind of annotation being most useful as a function...
Do you plan to create a question and answer section like Stackoverflow or Quora?
The concept of linking to a Q/A area as shown in that cover p...
Do you plan to create a question and answer section like Stackoverflow or Quora?
😊 Let’s talk though. It needs to be cohesive.
Profile Generalisation
Not forgotten, currently being worked on and aiming for the f...
Hi
Hi
My work in progress WYSIWYG editor for dev.to (forem)
Liquid tags quick add This is great, as are a lot of these...
Changelog: suggest accessibility enhancements to posts
We're uh.. ummm... working on getting that squared away.
Changelog: Lock Discussions on Posts
This is such a well thought out feature. Tremendous work @ale...
Are pinned posts a new thing?
Did you find this thread because I pinned it?
Feature request: Configurable height of Code Pen and JS Fiddle embeds
Hmmmm seems like aspect ratio could be an advanced option. I'...
Are pinned posts a new thing?
They are new. I just noticed that my post got pinned over at ...
Blank page after trying to login
I suspect this could be any number of issues... Hard to figur...
Big announcement from Forem?
There'll be real big announcements in the not-too-distant fut...
Customizing welcome description
Here are tagline and description as configured on DEV right n...
Changing size of textarea outside its bounds.
Hmmm, what's the OS/browser here and/or settings that enable ...
How to make Forem svg logos sharper
I'm no .ai wiz, but maybe this will help:
Keyboard shortcuts discoverability
....The i button triggers the editor guide, but it seems li...
Add option for YouTube in Social Media admin config settings
I think this should be possible. Currently we have been caugh...
How to make Forem svg logos sharper
It looks like the source image is not very sharp, and it's an...
Request to add online version of the offline page
We can actually do this without new code in the core using th...
How to make code blocks appear on my website as they appear on Dev To.
Yeah, seeing the backticks makes me think maybe this is displ...
[REQUEST] Filter posts by draft/published in dashboard
I'm kind of surprised we don't do that already. I just creat...
Production tutorial?
We're nearing this point and actively working on it. We'll ha...
Sitemaps submission frequency
Sitemap submission frequency shouldn't matter, as Google will...
Discuss: Ability to Reorder Posts in a Series.
This was originally considered in the model, and then never r...
Generalize the /offline.html page
Offline is one big glob of HTML... It should be something tha...
The layout is amazing! How hard is it to move a php forum mysql to here?
Moving from a PHP/mysql Forum to Forem would be a certain typ...
iPad landscape bug.
That’s weird. Definitely make an issue
Sidekiq Memory Issues?
@rhymes want to weigh in here on the state of this?
Forem Following System
I think we've had a hard time improving this because we use t...
Should forem be extended for private communities?
Yeah, it's shaping out in exciting ways.
Should forem be extended for private communities?
It just so happens that this is already an option! We have a ...
Getting Forem running on Apple Silicon
I'm glad this post exists before upgrading myself.
Ability to sponsor authors directly
I think the answer to a lot of this is integrations... We al...
Icons in browser extension sidebar
Currently it's done manually— But it uses PNG Logo. In the f...
Can we get a default social image for /pod and /events?
Add missing default social ima...
Adding SAML SSO to forem
This is a great thought. We have discussed this internally an...
What would be the best Heroku Tier for launching Forem
You’ll need standard 2 in general, but we’re working on lesse...
Scheduled Posts?
I think the question is whether this should be built in to th...
Can we get a default social image for /pod and /events?
Yeah good call
The logo Forem on PWA is with white background
Good call. The PWA should take brand colors and not just black
Forem + AWS LightSail Containers
@jdoss
Welcome thread v0
Several months ago, but we’ve also been fairly heads down so ...
Welcome thread v0
Good to have you 😅
I18n as a lambda function or source regex
I suspect the best scenario is mostly to start getting the i1...
LMS with Forem
I've been VERY fond of this kind of thing 😄
"Apply to Join Community" optional configuration request
Probably makes sense for the "acceptance" of a request to tri...
My first forem.dev post
Welcome!
Wow. Forem is Amazing.
Hell yeah! Only the beginning. This PR is definitely going ...
Excited about forem
That's good!
Hosted instances?
Can you clarify whether you're talking about hosted by us or ...
Verification Badges
The one thing that specialty platforms like Forem are able to...
Attach images to listings
Commented on the issue. I'm in favor of this generally.
Custom reactions
Reactions were originally meant to be extensible and ultimate...
Keyboard shortcuts
Made an issue cmd/ctrl+retur...
Keyboard shortcuts
This is great. One shortcut that "went missing" when we updat...
Removing articles
Yep, you can also alter seeds.db to change what comes out in ...
How to send mail through mailgun
We would likely need to build a generalized gateway from the ...
Github logo broken on Forem.dev
cc: @maestromac
Let's close the loop on @ mention autocomplete in comments
I 1000% agree.... My thoughts here are mostly that we've disc...
Google captcha is not configured on forem.dev
Fixed ✅
Welcome thread v0
Hello!
Support for digest emails for smaller communities
Makes sense for sure
Aftermath on Clicking, "Open in Gitpod"
Open your .env and change APP_DOMAIN to "your own Gitpod For...
Should all forems share an authentication system?
Yup, I've definitely had this thought. Each Forem itself alre...
What's the benefit of us maintaining our Progressive Web Apps (PWA) of DEV?
In my view the qualities that make something "eligible" as a ...
Cool forem
true
Request: optional "database" feature
Yup, any kind of extensibility of functionality is definitely...
Request: optional "database" feature
I think the technical term may be "thing". 😄 Forem needs "thi...
How not to grow
Yup, we should make this more clear... No forem needs more th...
Welcome thread v0
Great to have you!!
Green button in forem.dev !!
Yup! .... I didn't even realize this would apply to all link...
A gallery for campaigns, announcements and article footers
10000% agree. I think the raw DIY thing should be pretty rare...
New "starter state" coming soon
This is live now for new forems.... Not yet the end state, bu...
New "starter state" coming soon
Yeah exactly. Ideally we don't want to be going into console ...
Hello World
Hey hey!
Test comment liquid tag
One more time testing
Test comment liquid tag
Another test
Test comment liquid tag
dsddsdsdsdsdsds
Test comment liquid tag
test test test
Ideas for supporting podcasts on Forem?
We have something pretty similar with liquid tags, e.g. {% y...
Polls inside posts
Yeah, I really cover-complicated some things by wanting to en...
Polls inside posts
Yup, these are just missing a bit of functionality, but they'...
Declutter The Sidebar
100%. We've not wanted to jump into this because of technica...
Using the #growth tag
Boom. Added it as supported.
Declutter The Sidebar
Yup, I think this is the big question.... Also, I feel like ...
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This is a great call! I'm going to approve the linked issue ...
Explore Poxa as an open Pusher implementation?
The good thing is that if we run into problems we could alway...
How to properly enable multiple call-to-action buttons in nav bar...
Yeah, I think the primary action can be first, and then other...
Should 'write a post' be more visible on mobile view?
Yeah, I think this makes sense. For a while we were thinking ...
Installing Forem on Ubuntu 18.04 (Part 2 - NVM, Node & Yarn)
Great guide
local Forem Instance to Production level Instance in Heroku or VPS
We're definitely lacking the docs to give good guidance here....
Installing Forem on Ubuntu 18.04 (Part 1 - Ruby on Rails)
Thanks for the writeup!
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Proactive Ways to Prevent Spammers
I think what we most need is some clarity over certain if thi...
Implementing Video Feature
This is really great. More thorough than anything we even hav...
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Great to have you Melissa!
Would / Should Forem get a HELM chart?
I'll punt this to @jdoss for most relevant opinion. :)
Configurable digest
Love this idea
How to get Forem to run on ARM
I have a couple of these sitting in my office and I want to g...
How to get Forem to run on ARM
Hell yeah! This is sooooo in the spirit of Forem! I love it s...
Flexible Profile Content via Markdown
Have you considered making profile pages similar to github p...
Publicly Displaying Suspensions. Thoughts?
Maybe this is something we should be able to display on a cas...
My customization problem
Our online conference CodeLand was entirely done through cust...
Test comment liquid tag
Tada! test test test test
Is Forem planning to become something like WordPress?
Yup, and the "Forem Cloud" version will be a quick install wi...
Allowing Nav Links to be Defined by SiteConfig 🤔
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Collaborative Annotations with Highlights?
I'm definitely in favor of annotations! I think they should ...
Will Forem be getting badges like Dev?
Yup! Every forem can reward their own badges. forem.dev adopt...
Should all forems share an authentication system?
Yup, I think it's important that people can genuinely be diff...
Should all forems share an authentication system?
This comes into the topic of pseudo-centralization, where we ...
Let's do this
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Migrating to Forem
How much will it cost to handle the hosting once Forem comes...
Is the browser extension working for anyone?
It should load automatically, but unsure why it would and wou...
Is the browser extension working for anyone?
Then suddenly it appeared on all my sites And is that all ...
Is the browser extension working for anyone?
So it took you visiting that endpoint manually before it work...
Is the browser extension working for anyone?
Any error messages?
Has anyone used the browser extension?
Have you tried in Chrome and Brave? I wonder if Brave has dif...
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Hey!
Settling on language around suspending users
I feel like expunge isn't really part of my normal vocabulary...
Hello Forem World!!
Hey!
Settling on language around suspending users
I feel like we've talked enough about this to go with "suspen...
Forem Page Use Cases
I am aware that I can do this with pages as they let me incl...
We can run Forem without the Lambda dependency
This PR is merged. Not 100% sure it's the full solution yet t...
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Hey hey
"I'm stuck" — should this be a forem.dev #help thread or a GitHub issue?
For me Forem is a less intimidating place to post. I always ...
What's the state of ApplicationConfig and ENVied, etc?
Okay great, so when this is done, no more required env vars?
What's the state of ApplicationConfig and ENVied, etc?
@molly_struve can you point me in the right direction?
My customization problem
🙂 We are currently working to get all of these fields 100% c...
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Hey Francisco!
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The path from DEV to Forem
Should DEV receive any special treatment at all? IMO yes, ...
print("Hello Forem")
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Hello Forum
Hey Amy!
Help: Docker Install Login
Hmmmm It's definitely the 422 on the PATCH that is causing th...
Has anyone used the browser extension?
github.com/forem/forem-browser-ext... I'll edit it into the ...
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Hey hey
#wiki tag
Wiki tag is a good idea. ... This is a good topic in genera...
Wrong Sloan in footer
Good call. This is one of those things that isn't open source...
Hello Forem, a designer here
Great to have you!
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Yes!
Are you planning on building a community with Forem?
I think being open source is going to be the key differentiat...
Hello world
Hey hey
Hello World, Forem
Hello 🙂
Has anyone used the browser extension?
Yeah, I'm concerned that the "boot up" logic is a little inco...
Forem : A place to meet around the fire
Yup! We’d just want to do it in a way that respects the indep...
Hello, World!
Any aspect of Forem you're most looking forward to getting in...
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Resources Required for Forem?
I think we're running about .5GB of RAM per instance on PUMA,...
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Hello!
Has anyone used the browser extension?
Great
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Hey Andrew!
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What should Forem use for documentation?
Videos tend to be best for getting started as opposed to deep...
Do we require social registration to prevent abuse?
Yup, we're definitely expanding beyond GitHub and Twitter. G...
What Forem search features are you craving?
+1
HELLO FOREM
Hey hey!
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Hello!
What sort of "Easter eggs" would you like to see in Forem?
I think clicking the footer mascot should do something— possi...
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Hey Greg!
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Woohoo!
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