What is your Forem? Can you share a link or is it still private?
I just recently launched Synthusiasts Club for synthesizer enthusiasts. It's a public community, please join up! 😀
If you self-host, did you have trouble setting up your Forem? Can you give advice to anyone else looking to self-host?
It's been a bit since I originally went through the installation process (and I definitely had lots of help!) but I remember struggling with step #11 "Once DNS is pointed at your Forem VM, you will need to restart the Forem Traefik service (sudo systemctl restart forem-traefik.service) via SSH on your Forem server to generate a TLS cert."
It turned out that there was a section in my Digital Ocean droplet networking config where they had setup a firewall entry restricting port 22 traffic (which SSH uses) to a specific IP address. Once we set it to “All IPv4”, it worked like a charm. You can find the link on the “Networking” heading for the droplet. Props to @jamie
for helping me figure this one out. 🙌
What are you looking to achieve with Forem?
I'm just hoping to meet some other cool folks who like synthesizers. It's nice to hang out with other folks who have a similar passion and maybe they can teach me a thing or two! I'm a guitarist/singer that bought a few synths over COVID and I'm still trying to make synths of everything. Oh yeah and I'm also going to use my community to hit people with as many dorky puns and wordplay as possible, hence synthusiasts.
What is not working with your current solution?
Everything is working! I don't think I've set up email SMTP yet though, but I know the docs are up to date here and I just need to follow through.
How do you plan to use your Forem?
For starters, I think I need to get going with writing more especially if I'm going to be able to pull in other folks to the community.
I don't blog enough on my own and I know that it's a great way to learn about a subject.
I chose to launch a community around synthesizers because I'm learning about them a lot right now and think this would be a great way to organize my thoughts. I'm also just digesting a lot of info out there that's been created by other folks... I think it'd be cool to reach out to these people and see if they'd be down to join the community.
What are your current favorite Forem features?
Hmmm... that's a great question.
I really like liquid tags! I think they greatly expand the capabilities of the editor and as a YouTube fan, I'm regularly embedding YouTube videos into my posts.
What do you feel is missing from your Forem that would help engage your community?
I'd really like it if we could lean more into multimedia content — video and podcasts. We do have these available, but I'd like to see them become more feature rich.
For one, I think it'd be cool if we could open up podcast management to users. Right now, they submit a podcast and it kind of disappears behind scenes. I think it'd be great if users could submit podcasts more freely and customize the look and feel of their podcast landing page without admin needing to assist.
I also realize that DEV has a videos section but we've not been able to open this up to other Forems because it's not in it's final state. I'd really love it if we could work on this more!
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What is your Forem? Can you share a link or is it still private?
I just recently launched Synthusiasts Club for synthesizer enthusiasts. It's a public community, please join up! 😀
If you self-host, did you have trouble setting up your Forem? Can you give advice to anyone else looking to self-host?
It's been a bit since I originally went through the installation process (and I definitely had lots of help!) but I remember struggling with step #11 "Once DNS is pointed at your Forem VM, you will need to restart the Forem Traefik service (sudo systemctl restart forem-traefik.service) via SSH on your Forem server to generate a TLS cert."
It turned out that there was a section in my Digital Ocean droplet networking config where they had setup a firewall entry restricting port 22 traffic (which SSH uses) to a specific IP address. Once we set it to “All IPv4”, it worked like a charm. You can find the link on the “Networking” heading for the droplet. Props to @jamie for helping me figure this one out. 🙌
What are you looking to achieve with Forem?
I'm just hoping to meet some other cool folks who like synthesizers. It's nice to hang out with other folks who have a similar passion and maybe they can teach me a thing or two! I'm a guitarist/singer that bought a few synths over COVID and I'm still trying to make synths of everything. Oh yeah and I'm also going to use my community to hit people with as many dorky puns and wordplay as possible, hence synthusiasts.
What is not working with your current solution?
Everything is working! I don't think I've set up email SMTP yet though, but I know the docs are up to date here and I just need to follow through.
How do you plan to use your Forem?
For starters, I think I need to get going with writing more especially if I'm going to be able to pull in other folks to the community.
I don't blog enough on my own and I know that it's a great way to learn about a subject.
I chose to launch a community around synthesizers because I'm learning about them a lot right now and think this would be a great way to organize my thoughts. I'm also just digesting a lot of info out there that's been created by other folks... I think it'd be cool to reach out to these people and see if they'd be down to join the community.
What are your current favorite Forem features?
Hmmm... that's a great question.
I really like liquid tags! I think they greatly expand the capabilities of the editor and as a YouTube fan, I'm regularly embedding YouTube videos into my posts.
What do you feel is missing from your Forem that would help engage your community?
I'd really like it if we could lean more into multimedia content — video and podcasts. We do have these available, but I'd like to see them become more feature rich.
For one, I think it'd be cool if we could open up podcast management to users. Right now, they submit a podcast and it kind of disappears behind scenes. I think it'd be great if users could submit podcasts more freely and customize the look and feel of their podcast landing page without admin needing to assist.
I also realize that DEV has a videos section but we've not been able to open this up to other Forems because it's not in it's final state. I'd really love it if we could work on this more!