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Keep at it Ben, I am sure this Forem will take off eventually. 🙃
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I saw 'share this' to Dev on codepen today. I know it's been there a while but wow, imagine seeing that appear for your forem.
Oh! I never noticed the "Share on Dev" button before.
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FlowState
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Moreover, I'll create more Forems (about 15 - 18) in 3 months.
Be careful, using Windows in your domain is against Microsoft's trademark.
Thanks, Tronic247,
I already have some Windows 10 tutorial banks and communities containing "Windows" in their domain names for about 5 years. Microsoft is a kind company against its supporters and community builders.
Wow, 15-18! That's some going.. you'll have a forem empire!
Forem is an awesome platform for community builders, I think. So, I'll do my best with it.
Here are some active Forems, that I manage for others.
Leewardslope
Sharply
Edu Forem
Bass Guitar
mmo4me
My hobby was to selfhost various opensource projects on my free time, and Forem is one among those. If you are new to Forem, I'll try my best to solve your techical issues so that you can host your own Forem.
Hi,
What is your Forem? Can you share a link or is it still private? logicrace.com
If you self-host, did you have trouble setting up your Forem? Can you give advice to anyone else looking to self-host?
Building from the source code and troubleshooting the issues took me over a year (on and off) while the self-host method took around a week including the time to create accounts on AWS and GCP.
What are you looking to achieve with Forem? I am trying to build a community of Telugu people.
What is not working with your current solution? Few important ones are:
Suggested way for somewhat user-friendly email signup:
We can leave the password thing out, signup with user ID and email, send a simple 4 digit OTP to the email and user submitting that OTP should confirm the user's account and should signin to the account automatically.
No need for the reset password as well, anytime the user needs to re-login, OTP should be sent to the email id and entering that OTP should log the user in.
What are your current favorite Forem features? All the features are excellent, the recent "Feed Latest Top" tabs reorganization is simple change but very effective.
What do you feel is missing from your Forem that would help engage your community?
I don't know how was the deprecated Voting feature in Forem or Dev.to. But observing that a simple anonymous voting feature is very effectively engaging the Indian users on other upcoming social apps.
The most engaging functionality is like "Any user can post a question with multiple options and the other users can choose one of the options anonymously, the users can see the poll result till that point of time only after choosing any option, and once voted.. the users can change their option but can not undo their participation in that voting."
It would be great if we can have this Voting functionality back on Forem.
If you've used the Forem Admin Docs, did you find everything you needed?
For self-host method.. almost yes. Remember like going into some trouble finding Butane for Ubuntu and then installing Fedora Linux just for Butane.
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