[HN Gopher] Thredded Forums - An engine for Ruby on Rails ___________________________________________________________________ Thredded Forums - An engine for Ruby on Rails Author : ksec Score : 75 points Date : 2022-03-04 12:14 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (thredded.org) (TXT) w3m dump (thredded.org) | JOnAgain wrote: | Thank you. I love discovering things like this on Hacker News. | jayroh wrote: | Did not expect to see this show up on HN today (or ever for that | matter). | | In any case, I wrote the original code for Thredded and it's | since had the stewardship taken on by two very smart and capable | gentlemen named Gleb and Tim. | | In recognition of the 1.0 release I wrote up a short blog post | with a little history and background on the project, and | congratulating the 2 guys for their work the last 5+ years. | They've done an incredible job, and I only wish we'd all met 5 | years before. | | https://joeloliveira.com/2022/03/04/weeknotes-for-the-week-e... | animex wrote: | Why is it called an "engine"? Is that some new type of gem or | package in Rails? | tomc1985 wrote: | They are like gems, but larger in scope and specific to Rails. | You might call them plug-ins | albertgoeswoof wrote: | https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html | burlesona wrote: | Rails has the concept of "engines," roughly small Rails apps | that can be embedded in / composed into larger Rails apps. | | https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html | donio wrote: | Despite the name this doesn't actually support proper nested | threading in the way we think of it here or on Reddit, does it? | jayroh wrote: | To this point I ask - are Twitter "threads" nested? | hombre_fatal wrote: | Heh, wonder what they used to generate the fake posts/threads in | the demo forum. | | > Use the online RAM firewall, then you can override the neural | protocol! | | > You can't parse the JSON without calculating the auxiliary AI | pixel! | | Super clean and I always love the idea of drop-in forums that | integrate with your application. | nickjj wrote: | > Heh, wonder what they used to generate the fake posts/threads | in the demo forum. | | Just by eyeballing a few of them it looks like the Ruby Faker | gem https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker. There's direct | references to it such as the Stormtrooper line in | https://github.com/faker- | ruby/faker/blob/master/doc/movies/s.... | jll29 wrote: | Thanks - it looks pretty but in terms of usability I prefer | USENET news via Gnus client. | cyberbanjo wrote: | Where do you use USENET? Do you host your own and if so any | resources about getting started? | | Edit: My curiosity regarding USENET was piqued after seeing | DFeed on here, a forum front end to USENET, made for and in use | at forums.dlang.org. | | https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/ | donio wrote: | Not the parent but I use aioe.org for USENET and gmane for | mailing list archives via NNTP. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-05 23:00 UTC)