Sketchpad
Discourse
Sketchpad | Discourse | |
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42 | 198 | |
112 | 40,662 | |
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3.0 | 10.0 | |
8 months ago | 7 days ago | |
Python | Ruby | |
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Sketchpad
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I'm scared of loosing this safe space (and other trans subreddits) in the face of API changes and possible hate flood that will come after
Also I'm gonna try and download all of the trans subreddits using this script https://github.com/Watchful1/Sketchpad/blob/master/postDownloader.py. hopefully I can get it working tomorrow.
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Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
Looks like there are also some unofficial, faster ways. But I don't know if they work: https://github.com/Watchful1/Sketchpad/blob/master/postDownloader.py
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Script to find overlapping users between subreddits from dump files
A while back I wrote a fairly popular script that used the pushshift api to find overlapping users between subreddits. This doesn't work anymore since the api is down, so I threw together an updated script that does the same thing using the subreddit dump files.
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PRAW - getting ONLY top comments of a single specific thread efficiently
If you actually just want to level comments I have an example here https://github.com/Watchful1/Sketchpad/blob/master/load_top_level.py
- Late Night Random Discussion Thread - 04 April, 2023
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Help with search and count results script of reddit API
I have a script here that lets you download a specific subreddit or users entire history using pushshift. It's a good example of how the url works and how to iterate through results based on timestamp. You can add a q=keyword parameter to filter to only submissions/comments matching a specific keyword. And you could remove the subreddit parameter if you want data from all of reddit.
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Are the more comments objects directive, or random?
I have an old script I wrote a long time ago to fetch only the top level comments in a thread here, which isn't quite what you're trying to do but should be a good example.
- Getting more than 1000 threads.
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Separate dump files for the top 20k subreddits
In addition to the dump files, pushshift offers an API with powerful filtering options. The main limitation is that it takes quite some time to download a substantial amount of data. If you have a use case that doesn't cleanly align to specific subreddits, take a look at my api download script here. Again I'm happy to work with you to build something for a specific use case.
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Looking for advice on how to identify users based on unique combinations of subreddit activity
There was a script posted at https://github.com/Watchful1/Sketchpad/blob/master/overlapCounter.py This does exactly what I need by using the pushift api, but seems too slow to work as a web app, and also I have no idea where to begin in converting the script to a web app.
Discourse
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Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue
> Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... and is open source.
Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/
Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/
Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/
Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord replacement, neither was mindblowing but all of them seemed okay (Nextcloud's offering was rather barebones, though).
Audio and video support varies because getting those right is challenging, at best you'd just integrate with something like Jitsi, that one's actually pretty good for meetings and such: https://jitsi.org/ and has a cloud version too: https://meet.jit.si/ (yet people still go for Zoom and it's odd UI/UX choices)
I actually rather liked forums back in the day, but I guess nobody will be setting up that many phpBB instances in the current year, though projects like Discourse also seem promising: https://www.discourse.org/
I don't think many people at all will be leaving Discord, due to how entrenched the platform is (network effect): if you want people to help you with what you're working on, you go where they are, not vice versa.
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Introducing the new Godot Forum
Discourse is also open source https://github.com/discourse/discourse
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My views on NeoHaskell
I disagree. Lots of communities, e.g. Julia or Stan, use https://www.discourse.org. Discourse is GPL2 and emulates old Internet forums.
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Is BuddyPress still a viable option to create a community-based website? Or should I be looking at other options?
Why isn't Discourse being listed here for forum software? It's open source and designed for modern communities. https://www.discourse.org/
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Don't Use Discord as a Forum
Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse
You could hook it up to a mail provider and can host it yourself for less if you wanted.
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Why does the mastodon.social's privacy policy template link to Discourse's GitHub?
I was reading mastodon.social's privacy policy, and noticed that the link at the bottom to Discourse's privacy policy links to Discourse's Github. I'm surprised because I thought it would be the privacy policy on discourse.org.
- So Long, Twitter and Reddit
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Think Twice Before You Use Discord for Your Community
Yep. Any platform run by someone else can kick you off for any reason, and time.
You should consider looking into running discourse, which is a modernized forum software: https://github.com/discourse/discourse
Nice examples of what it looks like:
https://discourse.nixos.org/
https://forum.level1techs.com/
As a bonus, the content and community will be accessible to search engines, so it’s easy to find answers to problems that gave been already been addressed.
In general, consider combining the two, where discourse is the anchor of the community that can’t be yanked out from under you, while discord is the one that sells the data from your players in exchange for free voice and text chat.
It’s also possible to enable logging in with discord credentials https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-discord-login-for-dis...
As well as pushing content from discord to discourse so it’s not hidden and losable: https://blog.discourse.org/2021/05/discord-and-discourse-bet...
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Is there interest in a specialized forum for gifted people?
So, I'm asking myself if you would be interested in joining a good old-fashioned forum (probably using discourse as software) in order to communicate with other gifted people around the globe. And please add any ideas you might have for a platform like this.
- Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
What are some alternatives?
Pushshift API - Pushshift API
Forem - The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever.
PushshiftDumps - Example scripts for the pushshift dump files
nodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client
Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
FluxBB - FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.
Talkyard - A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.
BuddyPress - BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.