On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:41:52 +1000, Chris Cason wrote:

> Currently my two top choices are Discourse (open-source and not to be
> confused with Discord, which is a proprietary walled garden that does
> not share information) and self-hosted XenForo with the Media Gallery
> and Resource Manager add-ons (commercial but not expensive).

FWIW, I am an admin in an open source community that uses Discourse.  If 
you want to deploy it yourself, the Docker-based installation is (a) 
officially supported, and (b) super easy to set up and use.

They also have a hosted option, but that may be cost prohibitive for this 
community.

There was an older plugin for integrating with NNTP, but I don't know if 
it has been updated recently or works with the current database schema.  
An experienced coder who understands Ruby (their language of choice) could 
probably update it pretty easily since NNTP hasn't changed in ages.

I also noticed that they recently added fully threaded discussions as an 
option.  I haven't looked at it yet, but probably should (I've got 3 or 4 
different sandbox environments of my own set up).

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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