I have a pretty active SMF 2.0.X Forum (150-200 concurrent users). It’s been pretty good to me, but they don’t really seem to have a truly responsive mobile solution and I have found a few things buggy and troublesome. So I have a few questions about Discourse: a) Does it have a genuinely respons…

Answering a) and c), because I have no experience for b). a) Yes, Discourse is very responsive. The apps are relatively new, and blocked for 100% new users. Users need to be active enough (I think it is read three topics or similiarly simple) to not be “trust level 0” to use the app. Before that, t…

Answering A only: a) Discourse works without issue on mobile/smaller screens. I’d highly encourage you to check out meta, or the testing site https://try.discourse.org/ to see how it looks. While there is an app, the only benefit is push notifications, and you have to be hosted (or customize the ap…

That is great - so much better than what I currently have as far as the responsiveness. And noted about the app. I am comforted by what you said, actually, because not everyone wants an app for every forum and site they visit.

Well, I would actually like to go to Linux, so that is a possibility. My site currently is currently composed of aspx pages and uses a small amount of the .net functionality. But I could probably port it fairly easily to Flask/Linux and self host. That’s something I’ve wanted to do anyway. I get…

[이미지] ConvertMe: So one last question: you said it could be self-hosted for $10/month? What is that $10/month for out of curiosity? You just mean to pay a hosting provider or what? If so, I already have my own dedicated server with one of the bigger hosting companies, so I’m good to go there…

Importing from SMF There is an importer for SMF2 . It appears to import avatars and attachments, but not polls or PMs. It has not been updated since the move to the new Markdown engine, but that probably does not matter. Most people run importers by first installing a development environment. To p…

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Oh thanks for the reminder about Docker! Love Docker and will discuss with my hosting company.

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