I had nothing to do this afternoon so I was browsing GitHub out of boredom and found a Discourse fork from 14 years ago. Given I was bored I decided I’d take it for a spin in Ubuntu 14.02. All it took was using rvm to get Ruby 1.9.3 and fighting bundle for 30 minutes (turns out I needed Bundle 1.17 over 1.4; thanks gemini) and I have a working dev install!
This was purely done as a fun afternoon activity and I am obviously not exposing this outside of the VM. I’m almost surprised how similar some things are (like the user admin page) all this time later but the rest of it looks crazy as somebody who first used Discourse later into its lifespan
I was trying to showcase the user menu but this build I tried does not have it working (it does nothing when I click it). I used to wonder what that chat bubble icon was!
