Comment on Discourse can now integrate with the Fediverse through ActivityPub Plugin
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year agoAh, 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).
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?
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.
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