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Monorepo hosting the proton web clients
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Open source forum #260

Closed julianfairfax closed 1 year ago

julianfairfax commented 2 years ago

I would post this on the forum, as it's a feature request, but given the nature of the request, I don't feel that would be appropriate. Your forum is just simply not in the spirit of your brand. You're using a closed source third-party provider to host an outdated and visually unappealing forum. An open source solution such as https://www.discourse.org/ can be fully self-hosted by you with minimal resources being used on what I'm sure are already a good number of servers you have. It's a free, open source, modern, and well-designed system. If an open source forum was used, it would turn from an unappreciated corner of your brand that no one wants to use, to a well-implemented space for the community's ideas. Please consider adopting the use of a platform such as https://www.discourse.org/, so that the community will have a real place to give feedback. Thanks for your work on this product, and it's underlying purpose: our privacy!

markcellus commented 2 years ago

Yes. It is very hard to follow discussions on that closed-source product or know about when new topics are created. If the community isn't notified of new posts, the author loses out on upvotes.

itsnotsaved commented 2 years ago

Simple exact alternative to uservoice https://fider.io/ https://github.com/getfider/fider

julianfairfax commented 1 year ago

You could do what Standard Notes do and simply setup a GitHub repository to use as your forum through the issues or discussions function. See https://github.com/standardnotes/forum

twiss commented 1 year ago

Hi there, I've passed it on internally. I don't think anyone at Proton is a huge fan of the current solution, either :)