gestivamo un grande forum e lo abbiamo chiuso alcuni anni fa. Ho appena provato a installare vBulletin 5.x ed è completamente inutile!
Sto cercando alternative (solo self-hosted)
Alcuni aspetti che per me contano:
Compatibilità con lo stack attuale: voglio installare a domain.com/community/ ma non voglio dover modificare la configurazione del nostro server (non siamo affatto un ambiente Ruby, siamo principalmente LAMP; non sono un esperto, ma sono sicuro che i miei colleghi possano risolvere)
SEO Friendly (inclusa velocità e WPO): per me è probabilmente l’aspetto più importante, dato lo scopo del forum
Integrazione con Salesforce: utilizziamo Salesforce/Pardot e vorremmo che i nuovi account registrati e verificati venissero inseriti in Salesforce/Pardot.
Permessi personalizzati: voglio poter avere alcuni forum pubblici, altri solo per membri e altri ancora con permessi molto specifici per determinati utenti. Quanto è flessibile il sistema dei permessi su Discourse?
Personalizzabilità (design): abbiamo un ampio team di design e vogliamo personalizzare l’aspetto in modo unico; preferirei che non dovessero imparare Ruby/JS per modificare il tema.
Comunque, quali sono le vostre opinioni? Mi farebbe piacere ricevere dei feedback.
Grazie in anticipo.
Well this is tricky. Discourse is not a LAMP app, so that will be different. However, that is the reason of Docker, all the Discourse stack is confined to the container image so you don’t need to install anything else on the host. Changing the default install to listen to a unix socket (so you can use your reverse proxy at domain.com and proxy requests to /community to the socket) is just a couple of lines of configuration.
Not sure what is WPO but Discourse ranks great on search engines out of the box, as long as you have actual content on the forum.
As long as those tools can handle a webhook, or you can quickly write a translation layer in your LAMP app it’s an easy task.
Every category can have different permissions, this is a basic feature.
Discourse is a “Single Page Application” so if you want more deep customization you will need to write JS code. However, there is a lot you can do with just HTML+CSS, so you it depends more on what is your expectation.
We actually have a very unique use case, I’m wondering if it has been done or whether it is possible.
Imagine a customer posts a very specific post (which really only applies to them), we would like to flag it so only admins and the user who posted can read and reply, thus taking the discussion private if you will (The whole community does not always need to see your discussion around a support issue for instance)
Is this something you can do with default feature set or will we need to code it?
That is not what I was asking for, let me clarify. A customer starts a “thread” on the forums (not a DM or group etc) and we determine that thread is only relevant to that customer. Without deleting the thread or moving it, we’d like a toggle to have it so only that poster and the board admins can see it. Make sense?
