Comment on Discourse can now integrate with the Fediverse through ActivityPub Plugin

• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah, okay. That’s not how that works, forums are usually used for specific contexts, like support from a specific company.

  As an example, Guild Wars 2 for the longest time - don’t know whether they still do - ran a forum that was a highly customized version of Discourse. Turtle Rock also used it for their support forum. Fairphone’s forums are entirely on Discourse (and it’s pretty obvious in their case as they use a quite vanilla installation).

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you for enlightening me, I didn’t really get it when I first encountered it. Like, how’s that different from like ZenDesk?

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its not proprietary software and not owned by a for profit company. Also allows because of the previous things, you can heavily modify it to fit the thing your forum is about.

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      • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That is very cool, I will learn more and advocate for them going forward once I better understand the standard

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