Huh. After all the Discord shite with face verification shite, me and my community (The Gamers’ Tavern) moved across to a forum first platform which also has live chat, and it has been an absolute breath of fresh air.
Oh nice. I just looked at the main site and the pricing page. No mention of open source anywhere there. The pricing page mentions a “free version” but also ask me to enter my email to find out more.
The license is GPL3. But they don’t seem to want people to know that…
So I’m not really sure what the deal with the paid plans is. Are you just paying for them to handle hosting? Or are some features restricted unless you pay (the software is not fully open source)?
Yeah, you’ve more or less got it- you pay if you want them to host it. But the open source is just that, in that you can entirely self host the software on your own machinery. That’s exactly what we do. The only cost for us here being the cost of renting the server (Hetzner in this case).
So, for anyone wanting to create an account with our instance, it’s entirely free ☺️
Nice. I might pop in and check it out. Ive been looking for something like this.
That being said, looking over the source now that I know it’s open… I’m seeing a very concerning amount of evidence that this project is heavily vibe coded. The is an absolute cacophony of SLOP.md files in the repo.
Really making me question the future of this project. Looks like the project started before vibe coding was a thing but the slop ship sailed quite some time ago.
FWIW, I’m not anti-ai for programming use but this to me looks very extreme, very disorganised, very concerning.
Huh. After all the Discord shite with face verification shite, me and my community (The Gamers’ Tavern) moved across to a forum first platform which also has live chat, and it has been an absolute breath of fresh air.
Bring back more forums imo
You got me excited because this sounds amazing but it’s not open source… :/
Erm. It is.
https://www.discourse.org/open-source
Edit: join us and check it out yourself, if you like. We talk all things FOSS, Linux and gaming: discourse.gamerstavern.online
Oh nice. I just looked at the main site and the pricing page. No mention of open source anywhere there. The pricing page mentions a “free version” but also ask me to enter my email to find out more.
The license is GPL3. But they don’t seem to want people to know that…
So I’m not really sure what the deal with the paid plans is. Are you just paying for them to handle hosting? Or are some features restricted unless you pay (the software is not fully open source)?
Yeah, you’ve more or less got it- you pay if you want them to host it. But the open source is just that, in that you can entirely self host the software on your own machinery. That’s exactly what we do. The only cost for us here being the cost of renting the server (Hetzner in this case).
So, for anyone wanting to create an account with our instance, it’s entirely free ☺️
Nice. I might pop in and check it out. Ive been looking for something like this.
That being said, looking over the source now that I know it’s open… I’m seeing a very concerning amount of evidence that this project is heavily vibe coded. The is an absolute cacophony of
SLOP.mdfiles in the repo.Really making me question the future of this project. Looks like the project started before vibe coding was a thing but the slop ship sailed quite some time ago.
FWIW, I’m not anti-ai for programming use but this to me looks very extreme, very disorganised, very concerning.
Which platform, please?
Discourse. Plenty of plugins and customisation to play about with. Self hosted, too.
Can check it out at discourse.gamerstavern.online if you like.