The discussion revolves around the user’s satisfaction with Discourse. darkpixlz shares their positive experience with setting up their own Discourse forum, highlighting its ease of use, customization options, and community support. They express their love for the platform’s features, such as Trust Levels, Moderation system, and organization system.
darkpixlz is not alone in their praise, as other users share their own experiences. MarcP notes that the search function is the best they’ve ever seen and uses Discourse as a personal notebook. Canapin also uses Discourse for personal note-taking, appreciating the control and organization it provides.
JimPas finds the idea of using Discourse as a personal assistant or notebook interesting and plans to explore it further. darkpixlz continues to praise the platform, mentioning the simplicity and power of the admin panel and Sidekiq. They also share their positive experience with the platform’s responsiveness, even on non-traditional devices like the Nintendo Switch.
Overall, the discussion showcases the users’ appreciation for Discourse’s features, customization options, and ease of use, making it an ideal platform for various use cases.
Recently I decided to start my own Discourse forum, after using Discourse through multiple sites within 2 years.
When I first bought a domain, it took no more than 24 hours to get a site set up, which was extremely fast!
I’m still in the main process of setting up the forum, but so far, it’s been amazing. There’s almost no waiting for anything to load. Setting up categories is near instant and permissions are basic and clean. The amount of community support for the app is outstanding, as well. I was able to find a plugin and theme component for everything I needed. Everything, the Trust Levels, Moderation system, organization system, is completely perfect and way more than I could have ever asked for.
I love how custom everything is! There’s probably near 200 site settings, and you can customize all text and messages sent off to users and seen in production.
Huge thanks to everybody that has worked on the project! Keep up the great work, excited to see what’s coming for it in the future.
I agree! When I first started off using Discourse I found many things very easy to get things started. It is definitely a simple and clean design. Discourse
Same here. I had trouble writing things down. I used a personal Discord server, but I switched to my own private Discourse to have full control of my data and to organize things better.
Of course, there are other software more suitable for this kind of stuff, and I use Discourse because I’m familiar with it.
@darkpixlz, you’ll love Discourse and as @MarcP said, you’ll find more stuff to enhance your instance.
Discourse as a Personal Assistant/Notebook… now that’s very interesting to me. I will be doing a lot more about this. Thank you for that use case, @MarcP and @Canapin .
Yep, I just familiarized myself with Sidekiq and the admin panel and I love how simple yet powerful everything is, just a click of a button and you’ve just changed some things that would be unheard of to change on other websites, or fire events on the spot via Sidekiq!
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about this. Thank you for that use case, 
