Help, they're moving us to Discourse!
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@masonwheeler said in Help, they're moving us to Discourse!:
So it seems that the main concern that Ryan (the SDL guy running all this) has is over Jeff's access. Of course, Jeff's claiming that he did nothing wrong and he just used "normal moderator tools," but I never claimed he didn't; just that we never made him a moderator and he took that upon himself, uninvited and unwanted.
Can anyone clarify how the "Jeffing" that he became so infamous for around here got started?
I just sent this in the chat that you sent me, but much of it is public knowledge, so I'll put it here too, in case others have clarifying comments or remember things better:
As I understand it, Alex is friends with Jeff, which is part of the reason we ended up on Discourse in the first place. In order to get things moving more quickly, and because we were being set up as a sort of beta forum, Jeff and Sam were both brought on as administrators. Alex had only intended for them to provide technical support for the forum, but to fully do that, they needed to be configured as administrators, which in Discourse meant that they automatically had moderator privileges, which cannot be worked around (i.e., you can't have admins without mod privileges). Jeff decided that since he could moderate, he should moderate, leading to
aone of the huge shitstorms in the forum's early Disco-days.If they intend to go with a self-hosted instance, then they shouldn't have any problems with Jeff, as long as they stay away from meta.discourse.org. If they are using an instance hosted by meta.discourse.org, then there is a chance that something similar could potentially happen.
Which brings up another thought: They should be looking at the server requirements for running Discourse. Discourse is very resource intensive, and they only really recommend using it on Digital Ocean droplets. Anything else, and you're pretty much on your own as far as support goes. By the time we migrated off of Discourse, Alex was paying something like $300 a month just for the forum instances and we were still suffering from some serious performance issues.
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@abarker said in Help, they're moving us to Discourse!:
By the time we migrated off of Discourse, Alex was paying something like $300 a month just for the forum instances and we were still suffering from some serious performance issues.
Wait, $300/month for the Discourse servers?!? Like 15 of the $20 droplets? That's nuts!
Do you have any idea what type of instances they were? Now I'm wondering how much hardware it takes to host a modest NodeBB instance like this one.
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@UndergroundCode I'm not positive I remember that right, but I'm pretty sure that's what Alex said the cost was. @PJH or @ben_lubar might remember the specifics of the Discourse server better, though.
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@UndergroundCode said in Help, they're moving us to Discourse!:
Like 15 of the $20 droplets?
Can you buy a pre-set large amount of these and call it a "firehose"?
