Friday, February 8, 2013

Civilized Discourse Construction Kit

Jeff Atwood:

Our amazingly talented team has been working on Discourse for almost a year now, and although like any open source software it’s never entirely done, we believe it is already a generation ahead of any other forum software we’ve used.

I greatly admire what WordPress did for the web; to say that we want to be the WordPress of forums is not a stretch at all. We’re also serious about this eventually being a viable open-source business, in the mold of WordPress.

Unlike Atwood’s previous project, Stack Overflow, Discourse is built using Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, and PostgreSQL.

Update (2013-02-11): Robin Ward explains more about the choice of Ember.js.

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Chucky
February 8, 2013 6:17 PM

Not really about his software, but I'd read his post, and was struck by this:

"Forums are the dark matter of the web, the B-movies of the Internet. But they matter. To this day I regularly get excellent search results on forum pages for stuff I'm interested in. Rarely a day goes by that I don't end up on some forum, somewhere, looking for some obscure bit of information. And more often than not, I find it there."

Very true, and not remarked upon widely.

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