Ben Halpern

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...

Jan 14

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...

Nov 12 '21

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...

Oct 15 '21

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

Oct 15 '21

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 I can see that it is already a little out of date...

Oct 8 '21

(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...

Oct 2 '21

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 ...

Oct 1 '21

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...

Sep 30 '21

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...

Sep 23 '21

Yes, we've discussed this. Hasn't been implemented. Images l...

Sep 23 '21

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...

Sep 14 '21

Seems like the logical tweak would be fairly minimal.

Sep 14 '21

You have the functionality. I believe some of the logic just ...

Sep 14 '21

I'd encourage you to play around with alternate "templates" (...

Sep 13 '21

Are you referring to these kinds of images?

Sep 13 '21

Very happy this is working!!! The CDN/edge caching story is ...

Sep 13 '21

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...

Sep 9 '21

Yes, this is correct. I don't know why this would spike RAM. ...

Sep 9 '21

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/

Aug 18 '21

Woohoo it worked, let's garden! Really great to see you arou...

Aug 18 '21

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 ...

Aug 17 '21

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...

Aug 6 '21

And yeah, Forem is designed to be extremely scalable — both t...

Aug 6 '21

Yes, all of this! A few additional thoughts: When reading ...

Aug 6 '21

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 ...

Aug 2 '21

That’s exciting!

Aug 2 '21

Great to have you! If you run into any questions, make a post...

Aug 2 '21

There's a button in the top-right of the admin/listings area....

Aug 2 '21

Nothing major, you should create a welcome post. And I notice...

Jul 30 '21

Awesome, congrats! Looks like there's still some more configu...

Jul 30 '21

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!

Jul 21 '21

Hello Michael!

Jul 20 '21

Let's gooo

Jul 20 '21

This can become a bug report issue if it isn't already.

Jul 20 '21

We have some configuration coming down the pike to allow for ...

Jul 20 '21

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...

Jun 21 '21

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.

Jun 19 '21

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...

Jun 11 '21

We're uh.. ummm... working on getting that squared away.

Jun 10 '21

This is such a well thought out feature. Tremendous work @ale...

Jun 10 '21

Did you find this thread because I pinned it?

Jun 8 '21

Hmmmm seems like aspect ratio could be an advanced option. I'...

Jun 8 '21

They are new. I just noticed that my post got pinned over at ...

Jun 8 '21

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 ...

Mar 30 '21

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...

Mar 22 '21

We can actually do this without new code in the core using th...

Mar 22 '21

Yeah, seeing the backticks makes me think maybe this is displ...

Mar 22 '21

I'm kind of surprised we don't do that already. I just creat...

Mar 22 '21

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...

Feb 1 '21

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 ...

Jan 12 '21

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...

Dec 17 '20

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...

Dec 16 '20

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 ...

Nov 21 '20

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 ...

Oct 30 '20

The one thing that specialty platforms like Forem are able to...

Oct 30 '20

Commented on the issue. I'm in favor of this generally.

Oct 26 '20

Reactions were originally meant to be extensible and ultimate...

Oct 26 '20

Made an issue cmd/ctrl+retur...

Oct 26 '20

This is great. One shortcut that "went missing" when we updat...

Oct 26 '20

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 ...

Oct 20 '20

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!

Oct 9 '20

Makes sense for sure

Oct 9 '20

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...

Sep 3 '20

10000% agree. I think the raw DIY thing should be pretty rare...

Sep 3 '20

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

Aug 28 '20

dsddsdsdsdsdsds

Aug 28 '20

test test test

Aug 28 '20

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'...

Aug 26 '20

100%. We've not wanted to jump into this because of technica...

Aug 26 '20

Boom. Added it as supported.

Aug 25 '20

Yup, I think this is the big question.... Also, I feel like ...

Aug 25 '20

This is a great call! I'm going to approve the linked issue ...

Aug 25 '20

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 ...

Aug 21 '20

Great guide

Aug 20 '20

We're definitely lacking the docs to give good guidance here....

Aug 19 '20

Thanks for the writeup!

Aug 19 '20

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...

Aug 18 '20

This is really great. More thorough than anything we even hav...

Aug 18 '20

Great to have you Melissa!

Aug 17 '20

I'll punt this to @jdoss for most relevant opinion. :)

Aug 14 '20

Love this idea

Aug 14 '20

I have a couple of these sitting in my office and I want to g...

Aug 14 '20

Hell yeah! This is sooooo in the spirit of Forem! I love it s...

Aug 14 '20

Have you considered making profile pages similar to github p...

Aug 14 '20

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...

Aug 13 '20

Tada! test test test test

Aug 13 '20

Yup, and the "Forem Cloud" version will be a quick install wi...

Aug 13 '20

🎉

Aug 13 '20

I'm definitely in favor of annotations! I think they should ...

Aug 13 '20

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...

Aug 12 '20

This comes into the topic of pseudo-centralization, where we ...

Aug 12 '20

test

Aug 12 '20

How much will it cost to handle the hosting once Forem comes...

Aug 12 '20

It should load automatically, but unsure why it would and wou...

Aug 12 '20

Then suddenly it appeared on all my sites And is that all ...

Aug 12 '20

So it took you visiting that endpoint manually before it work...

Aug 12 '20

Any error messages?

Aug 12 '20

Have you tried in Chrome and Brave? I wonder if Brave has dif...

Aug 12 '20

Hey!

Aug 12 '20

I feel like expunge isn't really part of my normal vocabulary...

Aug 12 '20

Hey!

Aug 12 '20

I feel like we've talked enough about this to go with "suspen...

Aug 12 '20

I am aware that I can do this with pages as they let me incl...

Aug 12 '20

This PR is merged. Not 100% sure it's the full solution yet t...

Aug 12 '20

Hey hey

Aug 11 '20

For me Forem is a less intimidating place to post. I always ...

Aug 11 '20

Okay great, so when this is done, no more required env vars?

Aug 11 '20

@molly_struve can you point me in the right direction?

Aug 11 '20

🙂 We are currently working to get all of these fields 100% c...

Aug 11 '20

Hey Francisco!

Aug 11 '20

Hey hey

Aug 11 '20

Should DEV receive any special treatment at all? IMO yes, ...

Aug 11 '20

Hey hey

Aug 11 '20

Hey Amy!

Aug 11 '20

Hmmmm It's definitely the 422 on the PATCH that is causing th...

Aug 11 '20

github.com/forem/forem-browser-ext... I'll edit it into the ...

Aug 11 '20

Hey hey

Aug 11 '20

Wiki tag is a good idea. ... This is a good topic in genera...

Aug 11 '20

Good call. This is one of those things that isn't open source...

Aug 11 '20

Great to have you!

Aug 11 '20

Yes!

Aug 11 '20

I think being open source is going to be the key differentiat...

Aug 11 '20

Hey hey

Aug 11 '20

Hello 🙂

Aug 11 '20

Yeah, I'm concerned that the "boot up" logic is a little inco...

Aug 11 '20

Yup! We’d just want to do it in a way that respects the indep...

Aug 11 '20

Any aspect of Forem you're most looking forward to getting in...

Aug 10 '20

Hey hey!

Aug 10 '20

:)

Aug 10 '20

Hey hey!

Aug 10 '20

I think we're running about .5GB of RAM per instance on PUMA,...

Aug 10 '20

Hello!

Aug 10 '20

Great

Aug 10 '20

Hey hey

Aug 10 '20

Hey!

Aug 10 '20

Hey Andrew!

Aug 10 '20

Hey!

Aug 10 '20

Videos tend to be best for getting started as opposed to deep...

Aug 10 '20

Yup, we're definitely expanding beyond GitHub and Twitter. G...

Aug 10 '20

+1

Aug 10 '20

Hey hey!

Aug 10 '20

Hello!

Aug 10 '20

I think clicking the footer mascot should do something— possi...

Aug 10 '20

Hey Greg!

Aug 10 '20

Woohoo!

Aug 10 '20

Hey hey

Aug 10 '20

Welcome!

Aug 10 '20

🌱

Aug 10 '20