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Awww yeah!! So siked for this launch.
I love how meta this all is, haha! Create your own Forem, hop onto forem.dev (which is also a Forem!) and convene with other Forem creators plus ask questions/leave feedback for the Forem team.
Anybody got any questions? I'm here for'em. 😉
Let's gooo
The new Forum revolution => Forem
This is big! This is REALLY BIG!
I am playing already, love the setup. A fully distributed open source community built on the world’s most advanced, innovative and progressive community platform, all running in your favourite Cloud, fully extensible.
🦄😻❤️
I wanted to ask what the difference is between the selfhost repo and the normal forem repo.
I was actually thinking of moving your ansible installation to a terraform based one instead. I found the need for (fedora) butane rather difficult. I got around that by using a docker command alias after a while of tinkering with the installation on my Ubuntu based OS.
Great question.
For a high level answer of the differences... forem/forem is our application, forem/selfhost deploys the forem/forem application to a cloud provider for your personal use.
Great! How about contribution opportunuties? I need to add some functionalities and personalization changes on my Forem instance, but I couldn't find the way to do that. How can I edit the forem/forem application path (Github address actually) on forem/selfhost configs?
Hey @ce7in
I don’t want to assume your technical level so I am going to let you know what you can do and also give you a few reasons why you may not want to.
We have a helper script Forem Image called
foremimg. It is used to control your Forem’s version and apply updates.So you can technically add other functionalities to your Forem.
To do this you would first need to create your own new image, host it on GitHub, and then point to it with:
You can see an example of this in the foremimg section of the selfhost docs.
While this is possible keep in mind you will need to keep up with Forem updates on your own as this will deviate your Forem Selfhost from the main Forem repo.
One suggestion, if the functionalities you are wanting to add could be useful to the whole community you could create a features post here on forem.dev and we can communicate with the Product team to see if it is a feature we can add to Forem for everyone to use.
You're amazing Christina 😊 Thanks a lot.
Happy to help. Thanks for all the great questions.
Beyond excited for where this will lead...
Splendid! Congratulations for the milestone
This is super cool! I am loving contributing to Forem and plan to setup a Forem instance of my own!
Reach out if you need help setting it up @squarebat 💜 And thanks for all your contributions.
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