Hi, I am an MLE who has some backend experience. My frontend skills are non-existent/pretty weak. I am interested in hosting a small forum which requires the following features: Filter posts by multiple tags in an easy way Certain categories being hidden unless user is logged in Sign ups needing…

I’m in the same boat as you. I’ve got experience with nodejs backend. I have done a little bit of html/css/javascript on the front end too but I’ve done way more backend. There is a lot of what appears to be specialized code specific to discourse or ruby or a very opinionated coding style, even t…

Yes, there is quite a large learning curve. But all the things you mention already exist and no coding will be needed. [image] Alexis Drakopoulos: Certain categories being hidden unless user is logged in Sign ups needing to be admin approved are in core Discourse, and [image] Alexis Dra…

I would KILL for some video courses on discourse development on Udemy. Just tell me who to throw money at. :dollar_banknote::dollar_banknote::dollar_banknote:

[image] Alexis Drakopoulos: Filter posts by multiple tags in an easy way No need to tinker for this, it’s already supported by the API. And you can do this already from the front end! I created a “widget” (Glimmer Component!) just to do that!: [image] Render a comp…

Could this be used to create a nested hiearchy. The forum I’m considering caters to older people who haven’t seen discourse like forums before. Would be nice for them to still be able to navigate nested structures like traditional forums.

[image] Alexis Drakopoulos: Could this be used to create a nested hiearchy. The forum I’m considering caters to older people who haven’t seen discourse like forums before. Would be nice for them to still be able to navigate nested structures like traditional forums. Many Discourse instances…

Off topic, but this was so handy here, I love our explain using ai feature an MLE in the given context refers to a Machine Learning Engineer. This is a professional who specializes in using data and algorithms to build models that enable machines to perform tasks without being explicitly programme…

[image] Alexis Drakopoulos: I’ve been looking at the code of some plugins and while the actual implementation is quite short and simple to read it looks difficult to write. [image] SinisterSpatula: I would KILL for some video courses on discourse development on Udemy. A few thoughts ab…

I would think that having fewer categories and less hierarchy would be easier for old people. Unless you have lots of traffic that is of interest to very few people you likely don’t need lots of categories.

How "difficult" is modifying/extending Discourse for a backend dev

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Falco (Falco) November 30, 2023, 8:16pm 8

Many Discourse instances opt into this, see:

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How "difficult" is modifying/extending Discourse for a backend dev

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