Comment by mid-kid

3 years ago

I was talking about needing a solution like this just a second ago. Down from the heavens, descends this. I'll be sure to give it a try!

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wanderingbit  3 years ago

Me too! I am trying to build a Discord-based remote course and am excited to read through the code here and see if it matches my needs, or can be tweaked to so.

Once I do that I'd like to DM you with some questions mid-kid.

Nice job on getting so much implemented and open for users!

rhyssullivan1  3 years ago

Send me a message if you have any questions! Happy to help with getting it setup

  • mid-kid  3 years ago

    This might sound a little bit picky, but from a cursory look around the project, it feels a bit too corporate and platform-ey for my tastes. I'm only interested in two things: generating (ideally static, and seo-friendly) web pages out of a discord forum channel and selfhosting it so we can archive the data ourselves (and won't be bound to content policies of answeroverflow.com). All of the extra bells and whistles with the bot auto-managing channels, analytics, AI and whatever else superfluous and make me sweat a little, as I'll have to comb through the documentation to make sure everything is set up correctly. It's also really a shame to read that selfhosting will be a "Pro" feature. I'll give props for considering users wanting to opt-out, however, and it does at least seem rather simple to set up.

    • rhyssullivan1  3 years ago

      Where did you see self hosting is a pro feature? My bad if the website gives that impression. It will be free, the whole codebase is MIT licensed.

      For all the extra bells and whistles, it’s mainly for people who are doing community support at scale who need it which would be paid customers - I do sort of need a way to support myself so I can buy groceries. The core of the product that matter is free and working well for indexing content so now the focus is “what else can we do to improve community support as a whole?”

      As for self hosting, if you submit a PR for supporting it I’d be happy to get that merged but it’s not really a priority at the moment. The codebase is setup to be pretty easy to make a self hosted version though.

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