Jeah, thanks for your testing post!
Feel free to create new topics to check out if this would work for you 
Flarum evaluation thread
this is great o/
5 days later
Hi everybody, very nice test, with the stable version of Flarum I will test it and you make it ! 
From a user point of view it's a very good choice, easy to create a new account, very quick to load, look clean, I will test it with you for the next days but it's very cool thanks !!
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This looks great. Works well on mobile as well, which is important for me. Reminds me a lot about Discourse, but loads much faster.
gcrk I flagged your reply test 2 just to check how this works. I guess a moderation message should have been sent out.
# Does it do code highlighting?
if flarum.works_well():
vote_with("yes")Edit: Nope, doesn't look like it highlights code. Also the code text is a bit pale. But both likely can be changed
Flagging works quite well. But I got no notification via Mail, I'll look into it.
We definitely need some better Code highlighting, lets see what we can do there
def function():
return
I guess syntax highlighting must be enabled through an extension.
Although I much prefer Discourse for its features than Flarum, I never liked Loomio, so I'm much better off with Flarum.
Discourse has some disadvantages: Its written in Ruby, which is problematic on its own but also nobody in the team knows this language so we would have a hard job extending the forum as needed. Its also much slower and heavier and I think we should try to have a as slim as possible infrastructure to be sustainable. Thats why we went with Flarum.
Anyway, missing code highlighting is something on my list now, thanks for the feedback. I am sure we get something working
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gcrk Discourse has some disadvantages: Its written in Ruby, which is problematic on its own [...]
"Flarum has some disadvantages: Its written in PHP, which is problematic on its own" is probably just as right I could rant a lot about PHP and its flaws
But fun aside: I like Flarum a lot already. I think it is a good choice. If it fits your technical requirements better than Discourse I'm all in favor.
Loomio on the other hand I did not really get at the beginning. It looked more like a formal tool for decision making, I was really unsure if it was the proper place to ask general things about Funkwhale.
Disclaimer: I worked as a PHP developer for nearly 10 years, but haven't done any bigger PHP work for nearly the same time. PHP and especially the infrastructure surrounding it overall has become much better in many regards.
I could rant a lot about PHP and its flaws
Thats fine, but we both don't manage this instance, so lets listen to the Admin. And as a side note: I ranted a lot about PHP when I used it some years ago, too, but a lot changed and its not such a pain to host something with PHP than with Ruby, but this is just my point of view. I think more important is the fact that None of us has a relation to Ruby as a developer, which makes it much harder to for example write a plugin if needed.
But I agree both solutions are much better than Loomio and as long as we don't find some basic problem with Flarum, I'd like to keep it.
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phw Quoting is super easy
It is! Just like on Discourse 
@gcrk
I just tried to tag you - not sure why it appends #3 to it (?)
[EDIT: that #3 is your user ID and messing with it makes the tag go bad. If I change the ID, for example, it turns into a tag for a deleted user.]
Downsides (compared to Discourse):
- Only like (no other emoji responses)
- I just tried to paste an image - doesn't seem to be able to know how to deal with that.
That said, I agree with this:
phw If it fits your technical requirements better than Discourse I'm all in favor.
gcrk we both don't manage this instance, so lets listen to the Admin
Ehm, @gcrk you posted this - but you are the Admin and managing this instance, no? I'm confused 
keunes Ehm, @gcrk you posted this - but you are the Admin and managing this instance, no? I'm confused
No, we have a dedicated admin who manages our tools: @egon0
keunes Only like (no other emoji responses)
There is a plugin for that.
keunes I just tried to paste an image - doesn't seem to be able to know how to deal with that.
I'll look into it, this would indeed be a nice to have!
gcrk No, we have a dedicated admin who manages our tools: @egon0
Ahh, ok! Thanks for that, didn't know
Just found another downside vis-a-vis Discourse: after clicking 'Post Reply' it seems to take quite a while before it's actually posted. For me it feels like Discourse is more responsive in this regard.
Minor issue, though.
Ahh, so image upload should work, not a missing function in Flarum then. Great
Sorry, one more comment; just saw the list of categories on the forum landing page. That's actually quite nice.
keunes Downsides (compared to Discourse):
Only like (no other emoji responses)
I just tried to paste an image - doesn't seem to be able to know how to deal with that.
emojis are activated, it's a work in progress to migrate the existing likes. the reaction extension has a button for like-migration but atm this doesn't work.
media-upload is also installed but i have to investigate what happens, i only get a error 500 and currently flarum doen't write logs 
keunes Just found another downside vis-a-vis Discourse: after clicking 'Post Reply' it seems to take quite a while before it's actually posted. For me it feels like Discourse is more responsive in this regard.
Minor issue, though.
thats a base problem on all our infrastructure atm - i'm on it. we have some very strange io-problems on the machine. i need to upgrade the hypervisor and tweak some stuff.
if we would use discourse i think we would wait 2 minutes until anything happens when posting/replying 
flarum is mega streamlined in my opinion, extremely extendable and in my opinion one of the best php based projects out there atm. it was a long way to flarum 1.0.0 (i have installed my first flarum in 09/2016 iirc) but now we have a 1.0.0 and everything looks very promising i think.