I think this is a good choice of forum software, as I have never seen any other forum software that had stuff like post lock timers, or unlisting posts.
Question for the mods: How much did the hosting cost? I heard that it’s a lot expensive to host Discourse, even though the software itself is open-source.
Plus, posts update in real-time so it eliminates the need to refresh.
However, their support is bad, and I mean it. They won’t respond unless you pay $100/month and will ban you from meta.discourse.org for absolutely nothing.
My example:
I’ve never been on a forum using this engine before, but so far it seems pretty fancy. Reminds me of if Discord was a forum application instead of a live chat application.
The only downside that I’ve seen is limiting likes.
(I know there’s also slow loading a lot of people complained about, myself included, however that’s understandable considering the fact that the forums are brand new and probably aren’t used to high traffic.)
The like limit is in place for the people that just give likes to every post, only to get a higher trust level.
If you only like the posts that you seriously want to like, you will not hit the limit.
I guess that’s fair.
I usually like every post that replies to me or my threads as a means to acknowledge their post so I don’t have to reply with “thanks” or something (and also need to bypass the 20 character limit).
Old habits die hard.
