Talkyard VS nodeBB

Recently I considered replacing the Talkyard comments solution on my notes here with something I've built myself. To do that I need a database. I was looking at different Postgres hosting options when I recalled I had seen buzz from developers on Twitter about Supabase. I wondered if that could be my database host?

I switched to TalkYard, which has been a much better experience. They're OSS, they support both blog posts and full-fledged forums, and the maintainer is extremely responsive and active.

Talkyard

Hello! Here there will be discussions about the software named Talkyard, and related things. (https://github.com/debiki/talkyard)

> > after few months I can't update to a new version

> forum owners often won't upgrade their website ... plugins that likely will break

Maybe then it'd make sense if I mentioned Talkyard (which I'm developing) https://www.talkyard.io (open source) — it has automatic upgrades. There's not yet any plugin system, instead currently "everything" is built-in, and there are (unfortunately) fewer features.

We are using https://www.talkyard.io to set this up - it is a stackoverflow-esque community interface with a bit of slack mixed in.

You may be using Discourse but you should be using TalkYard.

> I'm a big fan of https://nodebb.org/

TIL to what shit Netgate moved pfSense forums to. I'm glad you are fine with it, but not only my FullHD monitor is not a smartphone, so I don't need 400% fonts on everything (and post dates on the faaaaar right clearly shows nobody ever even used the forum) and most importantly - search doesn't work. It's not like the previous forum had a good search, but at least it worked.

Bonus point: try to Ctrl+mousewheel on any NodeBB (including the official one).

NodeBB

You said it's based on. This means that there are modifications to the implementation of nodebb. So where is your modifications' source code then? stackfoss/stackfoss is just a single readme file

Obviously forums aren't as popular as they used to be, so this topic might not be of interest to many. For folks that want to run a forum, they'd most certainly go with Discourse (Ruby), Flarum (PHP), Xenforo (PHP), NodeBB (Javascript), Nimforum (Nim) and maybe Casnode (Go)

If you want to make your own app out of custom code that you will actively develop new features for, I think your points are true. But if you just wanted a modern version of the old phpBB forums, there are plenty of almost-turnkey projects/templates you can use. Check out NodeBB for instance. Maybe the barrier for entry is higher in a way, given increased complexity, but you also get more and nicer features "for free". I think it's a wash.

I was looking into actively maintained Rust based forum software similar to NodeBB (Node.js) or Discourse (Ruby on Rails) and Flaskbb (Python).

package: name: nodebb version: 2.5.3 dependencies: runtime: - nodejs environment: contents: packages: - alpine-baselayout - ca-certificates-bundle - nodejs - npm - git pipeline: - uses: fetch with: uri: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/archive/refs/tags/v${{package.version}}.tar.gz expected-sha256: 92e390d7cda190e7f098833cbbbf03fbe1c50f25653656ad589ae97dc18a7684 strip-components: 0 - runs: | mkdir -p "${{targets.destdir}}/usr/share/nodebb" cd NodeBB-${{package.version}} cp install/package.json . npm install --omit=dev cp -a ./. "${{targets.destdir}}/usr/share/nodebb"