I just published a first version of my new editor project: Wordgard!
@marijn lovely stuff. I wish OSS projects would just use mailing lists though. Having to create a login/password to access a JS driven UI is really a huge step backwards on so many fronts.
@swannodette You mean the discourse forum? You can read that just fine without login, no? I'm not a huge fan of how heavyweight that is, but I do definitely prefer it to the experience of a mailing list. There's no halfway decent OSS alternative that I'm aware of, beyond maybe Zulip, which is weird in its own way.
@marijn I'll say this. Your website looks beautiful in New Moon (a fork of Pale Moon), kudos. I cannot view your forums. This is via NetBSD 10.1 on a 10 year old computer that I use to check my own stuff for problems that can be avoided if people would simply look past mainstream "solutions".
@swannodette Hahah yeah, I can imagine. It's a Ruby on Rails atrocity which won't even get out of bed without JavaScript. I acknowledge the problem, but have found no satisfactory solution so far.
@janl @swannodette Do it.
(I've seriously considered going down that road, but realized it'd be more work than I'm willing to commit to.)
@marijn @swannodette Node/TypeScript + DB of my choice ok? Easy deploy with docker-compose. Or should this really be a single static Go binary liek Forgejo? (I wouldn‘t write that, tho)
@janl Please don't actually do this! It's an endless rabbit hole of user management, spam protection, email notifications, posting UX, etc... I'd feel guilty.
@janl But yeah, it's hard to stop thinking about how much more minimal it could be. My stupid little forums are consuming over 11gb of disks space and a ton of memory and it's hard to bear.