Discourse powered?: https://forum.netgate.com/

[image] haydenjames: Discourse powered?: https://forum.netgate.com/ Unfortunately not.

Are you sure? Its basically a clone then? Using it for a few weeks now even the small details and functions are a straight clone of Discourse.

Yes, we are sure, simply examine the page’s source code to verify it for yourself.

[image] haydenjames: Discourse powered?: https://forum.netgate.com/ oooh, I find that very “laggy” and uncomfortable to use … and there are a lot of broken images?

Agreed. The fade transition they added is too slow. I removed transition in settings from my own discourse forum and really appreciate that those things can be changed in settings.

I see that now! Yikes, both forum software products released in 2013. There’s no way the similarities are coincidence. Heading to the way back machine. lol Edit: Found my answer. About 9 years ago, there was a major redesign and since then, the two have become increasingly similar.

This is an interesting detail they haven’t cloned right. This text can be copied to clipboard via a button This post here has copyible Blick but no direct copy to clipboard option. [image] VRF for IPsec tunnels Is there an ability on TNSR to give IPsec tunnels their own VRF? In JUNOS, i am able to place clients into their own routing-instance , where i can do IPsec... [The image is a screenshot of a conversation where someone named fractual_boy provides a command to create an IPsec VPN at an interface named ipip101. (Captioned by AI)]

Interesting @awesomerobot agreed. It’s difficult to get use to. Especially on mobile. Just the slightest finger movement left or right and you get buried in menus left and also right. Sort of the general feeling. I was curious more than anything. I started using pfSense a couple of weeks back and ended up their support forums where over time things just felt like… not as good versions of features on Discourse. The last time I inquired, it was more of an interesting situation lol: Discourse is that you?

With these type of programs you will often find the designs mimic one another Back in the DOS BBS days most of the typically popular BBS forums were based on Telegard code or made to be similar in layout & core function. I was using Renegade and with hacking the ovr file was able to make some simple tweaks to make a lot of visual changes. Simpler days.

Nice, it looks like they solved one of NodeBB’s biggest UX irks which is the confusing double-sidebar navigation it uses by default. (Normally NodeBB has a sidebar on left and right, and personally I find it kinda confusing to navigate with.) That’s a really good improvement that hopefully the NodeBB team can learn from and offer as a stock option.

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awesomerobot (Kris) June 9, 2025, 1:38pm 9

nodebb has similarities, but I wouldn’t call it a clone… there are a lot of differences

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